participant observer

English

Alternative forms

• participant-observer

Noun

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.