Researchers have very clear rules for presenting the results of our studies, we began with the introduction, literature review and the statement of the hypothesis, we then explain the method, the analysis and interpretation of results, concluding with the recognition of the limitations of the study, and suggesting ideas for future research. However, the qualitative tradition inherited from the Chicago School of Sociology has always insisted on the need for anthropological reports are as entertaining as a novel. Not surprisingly, the father of the school, Robert Park, was a reporter calling and put urban newspaper titles purely sociological investigations of their colleagues. Rolf Lindner remembered him in his delightful essay The Reportage of Urban Culture: Robert Park and the Chicago School (Cambridge University Press, 1996), which strongly recommend reading.
Professor Stephen Coleman of Leeds University, in collaboration with his colleague Steve Bottoms, Professor of Theatre at the same institution, has gone one step further. Is presenting the results of its investigation into the reasons for political participation by citizens in the form of play. Thus, interviews with people of diverse conditions (from inmates to single mothers, to businessmen or members of a golf club) are dramatized for the public in the work Counted , represented these days in the West Yorkshire Playhouse Leeds City, after its premiere in London on April 15, on the eve of the British election.
Coleman Research be published in book form next year, but the teacher has already made some of its findings in The Guardian : "It is when people think they can change things through their words, actions and their votes that democracy takes a practical meaning. "In addition, citizens feel that the mere vote" is a very weak connection between them and the people who claim to represent. "They want something more than" the ability to mark a cross on a piece paper, "want" more reliable information, opportunities for public discussion, and participation in policy design public. "Democracy, sentencing Coleman," not just about structures, mechanisms and rules, but also in the sense of being recognized and the psychological reward of having the same voice as everyone else. "
The theater has been since initially an escape valve for social protest. Works like Counted show that it can be an original vehicle for the presentation of the results of an ethnographic research.
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