TY - BOOK AU - Bonnet,François TI - Social Distance in Fieldwork: Strategic Competence and Cultural Competence in Survey Interaction PY - 2009///. N1 - 60 N2 - This article takes a critical look at the notion of social distance, based on fieldwork carried out in a black ghetto in Brooklyn. Social distance is created in the interaction between the survey-taker and the respondent; the survey respondent can demonstrate the strategic competence needed to reduce or instrumentalise the distance while the survey-taker can show the cultural competence to minimise the negative aspects. Reflexive analysis of survey interaction is therefore not only an exercise in methodology but also a way of producing ideas UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-geneses-2008-4-page-57?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -