participant observer

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participant observer (plural participant observers)

  1. (social sciences) One doing participant observation.
    • 1995, Sarah Thornton, Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital, Wiley, →ISBN, page 106:
      Between 1988 and 1992, I acted as a participant observer at over two hundred discos, clubs and raves and attended at least thirty live gigs for comparative purposes.