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`Creative Solutions' and `Fibbing Results'

Enculturation in Field Ecology

Wolff-Michael Roth

MacLaurin Building A548, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3N4; fax: +1 250 721 7767; mroth{at}uvic.ca

G. Michael Bowen

Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1; fax: +1 416-926-4764; gmbowen{at}compuserve.com

This paper is concerned with enculturation in field ecology, where students are frequently required to spend long periods of time in the field with little or no contact with others. We document the practical choices that allow aspiring ecologists, more or less successfully (in their own accounts), to deal with the indeterminacy and open-endedness of independent fieldwork, involving a version of what Collins called `the experimenters' regress'. `Constraint satisfaction' is a suitable concept to describe how our participant dealt with this regress. However, `creative solutions' and `fibbing results' become viable options when problems are deemed insurmountable.

Key Words: constraint satisfaction • emergence of practices • inscriptions • replication • socialization

Social Studies of Science, Vol. 31, No. 4, 533-556 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/030631201031004003
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