The Phenomenon of “Field Resistance”: Problems of Agency of the Object of Sociological Research
Journal: Rossiâ reformiruûŝaâsâ
Year: 2025

The article examines the problem of failures in empirical sociological research due to various obstacles to data collection. According to the authors, there is a phenomenon of an increase in the number of these failures in the last two decades. It is proposed to consider all their diversity within the framework of the “observer object of observation” research system created by the sociologist, in which the observer is objectified, and the object has varying degrees of agency, and is able to resp