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2. Reflexive practice in live sociology: lessons from researching Brexit in the lives of British citizens living in the EU-27.
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Benson, Michaela and O'Reilly, Karen
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SOCIOLOGY ,MATHEMATICAL models ,THEORY of knowledge ,PSYCHOLOGY ,QUALITATIVE research ,SOCIAL sciences ,THEORY ,RESEARCH funding ,REFLEXIVITY ,PSYCHOLOGY of immigrants - Abstract
This paper brings reflexivity into conversation with debates about positionality and live sociology to argue for reflexivity to be reimagined as an enduring practice that is collaborative, responsible, iterative, engaged, agile and creative. We elaborate our argument with reference to examples and contemplations drawn from our experiences researching what Brexit means for Britons living in the EU-27 for the BrExpats research project, which was informed from the outset by reflexive practice. We outline three (of a number of) potential strategies for engaging in reflexive practice: reflexive positioning, reflexive navigating and reflexive interpreting or sense-making. We acknowledge that these are not separate actions in practice but are conceptually distinguishable aspects of an ongoing reflexive practice, informed by our understanding of the cognitive relationship between reflexivity and practice theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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3. Psychology, sociology and interaction: disciplinary allegiance or analytic quality? -- a response to Housley and Fitzgerald.
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Edwards D, Hepburns A, and Potter J
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DISCURSIVE psychology , *PSYCHOLOGY , *SOCIOLOGY , *SYMBOLIC interactionism , *ETHNOMETHODOLOGY , *SOCIAL psychology - Abstract
The article presents the authors' comments on a paper by Housley and Fitzgerald about discursive psychology (DP). In order to understand the intellectual place of DP, the authors suggest taking the kinds of fragmentary focus on psychological matters found in the work of Harvey Sacks. The authors present their response to the paper's claim that DP suffers from theoretical amnesia with respect to the analysis of accounts and motives and that that amnesia is confronted by re-emphasizing the sociological canon of interactionism, phenomenology and ethnomethodology. They say that the problem with the paper is that it is organized around disciplinary allegiance and sacred texts rather than around the specific arguments and analytic developments.
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- 2009
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4. Uncertainty and practical judgement in research: a call for attentive ‘listening’
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Sarah Piscopo Mercieca, Daniela Mercieca, and Duncan P. Mercieca
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05 social sciences ,Judgement ,050401 social sciences methods ,050301 education ,Educational psychology ,Mosaic (geodemography) ,0504 sociology ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Phronesis ,Active listening ,Psychology ,0503 education ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
This paper draws upon research projects in which efforts have been made to find ways of listening to young children’s voices in early years contexts. This listening, namely in the mosaic approach, helps us to see how children make sense of their world, and adopt our planning and ‘being with’ young children. After setting the context of early years pedagogy and ideology of mosaic approach, this paper focuses on the researcher’s journey to turn her gaze inward before making any claims about her engagement with and listening to young children. Since this approach purposely leaves unanswered the question what kind of data is going to be collected, researchers have to decide what data is in the course of a research project, through their engagement with children. We argue for befriending uncertainty and dilemmatic thinking as it provides us with a different way of seeing, knowing and listening the hard to know. Through writing about phronêsis, this paper focuses on the process of decision-making and judgements that researchers undertake. The final argument calls for attentiveness and aims to acknowledge practical judgements as a fundamental part of researching early years.
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- 2021
5. Turning on the tap: the benefits of using ‘real-life’ vignettes in qualitative research interviews
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Idar Alfred Johannessen and Helen Sampson
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Research design ,030504 nursing ,Interview ,05 social sciences ,Variety (cybernetics) ,03 medical and health sciences ,History and Philosophy of Science ,0502 economics and business ,Credibility ,VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200 ,Engineering ethics ,0305 other medical science ,Psychology ,050203 business & management ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Qualitative research - Abstract
The use of vignettes that are based upon fictionalised accounts is well-established in contemporary social science. Vignettes have been used in a variety of ways to contribute to studies with both a quantitative and a qualitative orientation. This paper reflects on two recent qualitative studies which have made innovative use of ‘real-life’ vignettes. In each case, the paper describes some of the unanticipated and overlapping benefits that accrued from their incorporation into the research design and reflects on the advantages that ‘real-life’ vignettes might bring to future research. Drawing on two different research projects, the paper highlights the further potential contribution of ‘real-life’ vignettes to the repertoire of research methods currently available to social scientists.
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- 2019
6. Qualitative interviewing and epistemics
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Kathryn Roulston
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060201 languages & linguistics ,Qualitative interviews ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,050401 social sciences methods ,Qualitative interviewing ,06 humanities and the arts ,Focus (linguistics) ,Epistemics ,Conversation analysis ,0504 sociology ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Work (electrical) ,Perception ,0602 languages and literature ,Pedagogy ,Psychology ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,media_common - Abstract
Work on epistemics in conversation analysis (CA) has demonstrated how speakers attend closely to the knowledge claims they and others make and how this shapes interaction. This paper uses work on epistemics in CA to explore how interviewers and interviewees orient to knowledge claims involving the asking and answering of questions. Since research participants are recruited to represent a category identified by the researcher, interviewees are assumed to have greater knowledge relative to the research topic as compared to interviewers, who typically work to demonstrate that they are eager learners about others’ experiences, perceptions and beliefs and so forth. This paper examines sequences from research interviews to focus on the fine-grained work involved in asking questions and making knowledge claims within interviews. Epistemics provides a powerful tool to examine how speakers’ orientations to others’ knowledge claims is central to the interactional work of conducting interviews.
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- 2017
7. A comparative method for themes saturation (CoMeTS) in qualitative interviews
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Maria Perdikogianni, Maria Georgiou, and Costas S. Constantinou
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Comparative method ,Qualitative interviews ,05 social sciences ,050401 social sciences methods ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,0504 sociology ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Pedagogy ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Saturation (chemistry) ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Qualitative research - Abstract
Saturation of data has been acknowledged by many social scientists as evidence of rigor in qualitative research. Though there is a consensus about its definition and usefulness in qualitative research, the methods for achieving saturation are scarce while the social scientists who mention data saturation in their research methodologies do not adequately describe how this is achieved. This paper describes a new method for achieving saturation in studies that use interviews. The method is called Comparative Method for Themes Saturation (CoMeTS). CoMeTS is comparative in two ways. First, all themes from all interviews are compared with each other. Second, the sequence of interviews is reordered multiple times in order to check saturation again. This is because the sequence of interviews during the check makes saturation vary and, therefore, reordering helps confirming saturation. This paper concludes that CoMeTS is a simple, comparative and holistic method for achieving saturation and that it can be used in complicated qualitative studies.
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- 2017
8. Framing the telephone interview as a participant-centred tool for qualitative research: a methodological discussion
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Adrienne Trier-Bieniek
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Interview ,business.industry ,Applied psychology ,Computer-assisted web interviewing ,Online research methods ,Computer-assisted personal interviewing ,Framing (social sciences) ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Telephone interview ,The Internet ,Psychology ,business ,Social psychology ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Qualitative research - Abstract
This paper discusses telephone interviewing as a qualitative research method and defines qualitative telephone interviews as participant-centered. In a research project which consisted of internet based recruitment, emails sent to set up interviews and an analysis of 39 qualitative interviews conducted over telephone, I contend that being interviewed over the phone may result in more honest data as people have become more accustomed to ‘virtual’ communication, serving to benefit to both the participant and researcher. By merging feminist research methodology with traditional forms of semi-structured interviewing, data collected over the phone can be used when dealing with traumatic or sensitive topics and can result in rich data. Thus, this paper contributes to an ever-evolving conversation regarding the utility of telephone interviewing.
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- 2012
9. Synthesizing qualitative research: a review of published reports
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Alex J. Sutton, Andrew Booth, and Mary Dixon-Woods
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Meta synthesis ,Medical education ,030504 nursing ,business.industry ,030503 health policy & services ,English language ,03 medical and health sciences ,Systematic review ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Health care ,Meta ethnography ,Social science ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Psychology ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Qualitative research - Abstract
ABSTRACT Although there is increasing demand for syntheses of qualitative research, little is known about papers that aim to report such syntheses. We searched for published reports of attempts to conduct syntheses of qualitative research in health and healthcare. Papers were included if they were published between 1988 and 2004, in the English language, and in a peer-reviewed journal. We identified a modest body of literature (42 papers) reporting syntheses of qualitative research in health and healthcare. We extracted data on the topic of the paper and on reported methods for searching, appraisal, and synthesis. Some papers reported purposive attempts to innovate with, and to adapt, methods for synthesis. Many papers lack explicitness about methods for searching, appraisal, and synthesis, and there is little evidence of emerging consensus on many issues. There was also some evidence of possibly inappropriate use of some techniques. We conclude that continued methodological progress and improved reporting are required.
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- 2007
10. Young people engaging in event-based diaries: A reflection on the value of diary methods in higher education decision-making research
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Zoe Baker
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Further education ,Value (ethics) ,Higher education ,business.industry ,Context (language use) ,Citizen journalism ,Narrative inquiry ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Diary methods ,Pedagogy ,Psychology ,business ,Reflection (computer graphics) ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
This paper reflects on the value of diary methods in the context of a qualitative, longitudinal narrative inquiry exploring the higher education decision-making of further education students in England. Event-based diaries were used alongside interviews and focus groups over a 14-month period to gain in-depth insights into the reasons and influences informing their decision-making trajectories. I explore the challenges, successful approaches and advantages of employing diary methods with young people in this context. Challenges consisted of maintaining participant engagement, which was overcome by combining methods and incorporating a reactive co-participatory element. Yet, a number of advantages emerged from participants' engagement with diary keeping which enhanced the richness of the data; this inspired deeper reflections on decision-making and influences and provided a private space for participants to disclose personal difficulties that could not be obtained via interviews.
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- 2021
11. More-than-human methodologies in qualitative research: Listening to the Leafblower
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Maureen A. Flint
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geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,More than human ,Higher education ,business.industry ,Critical race theory ,05 social sciences ,050401 social sciences methods ,050301 education ,Sound recording and reproduction ,0504 sociology ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Active listening ,Psychology ,business ,0503 education ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Sound (geography) ,Cognitive psychology ,Qualitative research - Abstract
This paper explores the methodological possibilities of listening to more-than-human sounds as an entry point to critical analysis. Through attending to the sound of a leafblower as it resonates across a university campus, this article draws lines between the resonances of the leafblower, higher education, and white supremacy to explore how sounds become embedded in bodies and spaces. In addition, this article offers a methodology of listening as a process of attunement that provokes readings beyond what is immediately heard, seen, or felt. To listen to the sound of the leafblower and what it does, how it resonates is to attune to how that sound works, how it operates in the production and discourses of place. In other words, this article wonders how listening, as a methodological practice, provokes critical questions about place and space, and how sound (and particularly nonhuman or more than human sounds) functions in qualitative methodology.
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- 2021
12. The interweaving of diaries and lives: diary-keeping behaviour in a diary-interview study of international students’ employability management
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Emily F. Henderson and Xuemeng Cao
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HD ,Medical education ,PN ,Higher education ,business.industry ,LC ,05 social sciences ,BF ,050301 education ,Employability ,History and Philosophy of Science ,0502 economics and business ,H1 ,Interview study ,LB ,InformationSystems_MISCELLANEOUS ,business ,Psychology ,0503 education ,050203 business & management ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
This article explores ‘diary-keeping behaviour’, or the ways in which participants conduct the completion and submission of diaries in diary research. There is a paucity of methodologically oriented literature on diary method and as such this article makes a contribution to extending the existing knowledge of this method. The primary aim of this article is to set out in detail the key issues relating to diary-keeping behaviour, in order to provide a foundation for future critical explorations of this facet of diary research. The research that this paper is based on involved a 12-month diary-interview study. This project explored the employability management of Chinese international Master’s students in social sciences studying in the UK during one academic year. The article sets out key facets of diary-keeping behaviour and explores specific considerations for diary studies in higher education contexts, where diary research has been particularly neglected.
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- 2020
13. Conducting in-depth interviews with and without voice recorders: a comparative analysis
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Elizabeth Kabunga, Joseph Mugisha, Grace Tumwekwase, Rwamahe Rutakumwa, Janet Seeley, Martin Mbonye, and Sarah Bernays
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interviews ,Interview ,media_common.quotation_subject ,education ,group discussions ,computer.software_genre ,Rigour ,03 medical and health sciences ,rigour ,0302 clinical medicine ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Transcription (linguistics) ,Conversation ,030212 general & internal medicine ,media_common ,030505 public health ,Data collection ,Articles ,trustworthiness ,Linguistics ,Sound recording and reproduction ,audio recording ,field notes ,Scripting language ,Data quality ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,transcription ,0305 other medical science ,Psychology ,computer ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
The use of audio recordings has become a taken-for-granted approach to generating transcripts of in-depth interviewing and group discussions. In this paper we begin by describing circumstances where the use of a recorder is not, or may not be, possible, before sharing our comparative analysis of audio-recorded transcriptions and interview scripts made from notes taken during the interview (by experienced, well-trained interviewers). Our comparison shows that the data quality between audio-recorded transcripts and interview scripts written directly after the interview were comparable in the detail captured. The structures of the transcript and script were usually different because in the interview scripts, topics and ideas were grouped, rather than being in the more scattered order of the conversation in the transcripts. We suggest that in some circumstances not recording is the best approach, not ‘second best’.
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- 2019
14. Language and translation strategies in researching migrant experience of difference from the position of migrant researcher.
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Gawlewicz, Anna
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY ,ETHNIC groups ,INTERVIEWING ,LANGUAGE & languages ,MULTILINGUALISM ,CULTURAL pluralism ,RELIGION ,RESEARCH funding ,SEMANTICS ,TRANSLATIONS ,ETHNOLOGY research ,HEALTH facility translating services ,FIELD research ,REFLEXIVITY ,RESEARCH personnel ,PSYCHOLOGY of Research personnel ,PSYCHOLOGY of human research subjects ,PARTICIPANT-researcher relationships ,NOMADS ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
In an era of accelerated international mobility, migrant researchers are increasingly studying their migrant co-nationals in a language different from the language in which they report their findings. This raises very significant considerations regarding language experience and translation of research data. While crucial for understanding production of knowledge, these issues have not yet been given adequate attention. In response, this article focuses first on the challenges related to the assumed shared relationship with language between migrant researchers and their migrant informants. In doing so, it contributes to the discussion about positionality of a migrant researcher. Second, it recognizes the role of a translator researcher and discusses the implications of collecting data in one language and presenting the findings in another. As such, it addresses essential methodological queries many migrant researchers face when conducting studies involving their compatriot communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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15. Respecting the culture: undertaking focus groups in Oman.
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Ryan, Jane, Al Sheedi, Yahya Mohammed, White, Gillian, and Watkins, Dianne
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TRANSCULTURAL medical care ,FOCUS groups ,ISLAM ,NURSES ,SOCIAL values ,CULTURAL competence ,PSYCHOLOGY - Published
- 2015
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16. (Re)performing emotions in diary-interviews.
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Spowart, Lucy and Nairn, Karen
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SNOWBOARDING ,EMOTIONS ,EXPERIENCE ,INTERVIEWING ,PSYCHOLOGY of mothers ,QUALITATIVE research ,CONTENT mining ,PARTICIPANT-researcher relationships ,DIARY (Literary form) ,PSYCHOLOGY - Published
- 2014
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17. Qualitative methods of data analysis in psychology: an analysis of the literature.
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Carrera-Fernández, María Jesús, Guàrdia-Olmos, Joan, and Peró-Cebollero, Maribel
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RESEARCH methodology ,PSYCHIATRIC research ,PSYCHOLOGY ,RESEARCH funding ,SERIAL publications ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,QUALITATIVE research ,DATA analysis ,CITATION analysis ,DATA analysis software - Published
- 2014
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18. A Consideration of Extended Applications for Hermeneutic Phenomenological Research
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Mathematics education ,General Medicine ,Psychology ,Content (Freudian dream analysis) ,Graduation ,Qualitative research - Abstract
Purpose: The current paper aims to present four studies which investigated whether hermeneutic phenomenological research writing provided opportunities for intellectual reflection and development in 15 participants who received their Masters or/and Doctorate degrees in Art Psychotherapy. Methods: 111 pieces of writing, 65 images and 8 poems representing experiences framed by a hermeneutic phenomenological approach were collected between June 2015 and February 2017. Results: The findings from the four studies relate to fundamental themes and demonstrate how participants were able to experience a more perceptive reflection on the content of their graduate studies with the passing of time after graduation. Conclusion: It is thus further implied that qualitative research, with its highly adaptable and flexible qualities, can be taken beyond its use as a methodology into additional developmental possibilities.
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- 2017
19. How we used moral imagination to address ethical and methodological complexities while conducting research with girls in school against the odds in Kenya.
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Kiragu, Susan and Warrington, Molly
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ELEMENTARY schools ,CHILDREN'S accident prevention ,CONFIDENTIAL communications ,ETHICS ,INFORMED consent (Medical law) ,INTERVIEWING ,RESEARCH methodology ,RESEARCH funding ,RESEARCH ethics ,STUDENTS ,PILOT projects ,FIELD research ,HUMAN research subjects ,DATA analysis software ,PSYCHOLOGY - Published
- 2013
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20. ‘One participant said …’: the implications of quotations from biographical talk.
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Taylor, Stephanie
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RESEARCH methodology evaluation ,QUALITATIVE research methodology ,BIOGRAPHY (Literary form) ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,CONTENT analysis ,CONVERSATION ,INTERVIEWING ,MEMORY ,PSYCHOLOGY ,RESEARCH funding ,SOUND recordings ,THEORY ,LABELING theory ,NARRATIVES - Abstract
Quotations from biographical talk are widely used in the presentation and writing up of qualitative research. This article discusses the unintended implications that such quotations can carry, partly as a result of the conventions for introducing them and because the basis for their selection is often unclear. These implications are discussed in terms of consistency. An assumption of consistency as an aspect of the talk or the person speaking is problematic because it disregards the situated and variable nature of talk, including talk about memory, and can invoke an over-simple model of the speaker. The article proposes that consistency should not be assumed but become a focus for analysis. An example is presented of an analysis of biographical talk about creative work, following an approach derived from social and discursive psychology. Consistencies in a speaker’s repeated accounts of the same job are interpreted in terms of both discursive resources around contemporary creative working, and ‘local resources’, which are derived from the speaker’s ‘discursive apprenticeship’ with his own family. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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21. ‘Being there’ the experience of shadowing a British Muslim Hospital chaplain.
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Gilliat-Ray, Sophie
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HOSPITAL chaplains ,ETHNOLOGY ,ISLAM ,RESEARCH methodology ,CHAPLAINS ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
This article critically evaluates ‘shadowing’ as a qualitative research method. Sometimes described as the relatively straightforward opportunity to observe and record the actions and behaviours of a single individual during the course of their everyday working activities (McDonald, 2005), this article demonstrates that shadowing is often a highly disruptive and to some extent performative undertaking, both for the researched and for the researcher. Yet, it is precisely the disruptive potential of shadowing that makes it a valuable data collection method, offering the opportunity to gain significant insights that would be largely unobtainable via any other method. Following a brief discussion of shadowing as a research tool and an introduction to the ‘Muslim Chaplaincy Project’, the remainder of the article describes the experience of shadowing an individual Muslim hospital chaplain in detail. What becomes apparent is that shadowing has the potential to blur into other qualitative data collection methods (e.g. interviewing), especially when those we are shadowing have developed roles that engage them in various discursive communities, and a range of cooperative networks. Shadowing such individuals complicates our understanding of how this method operates in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
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22. Beyond the discursive: the case of social organization -- a reply to Edwards, Hepburn and Potter.
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HOUSLEY, WILLIAM and FITZGERALD, RICHARD
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SOCIAL order ,SOCIAL structure ,DISCURSIVE psychology ,ETHNOMETHODOLOGY ,CONVERSATION analysis ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
The article presents the authors' response to a critique of their article, focusing on progressive theorizing and powerful analytic work by reiterating concern with the question of social order and organization. According to the authors, contrary to their critics' suggestion that they seek to defend a canon, they merely identify the main strands of allied and sometimes incommensurate enquiry and method that discursive psychology has appropriated from sociology. They reiterate their claim that discursive psychology substitutes discourse for social organization and as such formulates a distinct and different analytic trajectory from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
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- 2009
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23. Utilising social network research in the qualitative exploration of gamblers’ social relationships
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Susan McConville, Fiona Dobbie, and Gerda Reith
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social networks ,social network analysis ,Applied psychology ,sociograms ,in-depth interviews ,0504 sociology ,History and Philosophy of Science ,name generation ,0502 economics and business ,social network research ,Narrative ,Social network analysis ,Sociogram ,longitudinal qualitative research ,Social network ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,050401 social sciences methods ,gambling ,concentric circles ,In depth interviews ,Social relationship ,Psychology ,business ,Social psychology ,050203 business & management ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Qualitative research - Abstract
Social Network Analysis (SNA) is often criticised for being too quantitative in focus and network scientists have commented on a lack of engagement from qualitative researchers. This paper will contribute to these debates by critically reflecting on a qualitative study of gambling where social network research methods were adapted and applied to narrative interviews. Egocentric sociograms (maps of participant social networks, using a name generation question and concentric circles) were created for 23 participants. These sociograms were used as an interactive tool, with the addition of coloured dots, to stimulate discussion and so generate rich narrative and visual data on the impacts of gambling behaviour on participants’ wider social networks. This approach represents an extension to existing SNA methods that has not previously been utilised.
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- 2017
24. Ethnographying Public Memory:The Commemorative Genre for the victims of Terrorism in Italy.
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Anna L. Tota
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MEMORY ,COLLECTIVE representation ,TERROR ,FEAR ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
This article addresses one concern that is central to much of the sociology of memory currently ongoing: how can we remember terror and how can we forget it? And moreover, is there any cultural shape of remembering terror, which is more suitable than others? By addressing the issue of the social representation of a very controversial past - the massacre at the Bologna railway station in 1980 - the focus is here on the relation between the collective knowledge of public events, such as a terror attack, and the process of their fixing and shaping into social practices (commemorative ceremonies) and cultural objects (public symbols of the slaughter). It will be shown how, in the Bologna case, this process reflects tensions and articulates contradictions in the public inscription of the legitimate version of this past, between state and civil society. It will be argued that, due to a specific group of agents of memory - composed primarily by the association of the victims' relatives and the committees of solidarity founded in the city during the last two decades - the structure of the commemorative ceremony has led to the public fixing of a specific genre of memorization in Italy for the victims of terrorism. This genre, that defines the number of its degrees of freedom (the range of possible variation within itself), becomes a crucial key to understanding the public making of cultural memories. The methodological considerations that arise from this research are related to the possible ways to analyse controversial versions of the past. It will be shown how ethnographying public enactment of personal experience and interviewing the victims and their relatives represent a very specific type of research experience, where many usual assumptions used by qualitative interviews are violated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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25. Overcoming respondent resistance at elite interviews using an intermediary
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Mihail Petkov and Lambros George Kaoullas
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030504 nursing ,Interview ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,050401 social sciences methods ,Resistance (psychoanalysis) ,03 medical and health sciences ,0504 sociology ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Research participant ,Elite ,Respondent ,Credibility ,Conversation ,0305 other medical science ,Psychology ,Inclusion (education) ,Social psychology ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,media_common - Abstract
This article promotes an interviewing technique that could be used when interviewing elite policy-making respondents who fear repercussions for divulging information and who, as a result, either become too emotionally unstable to allow for rapport or begin to resist disclosing information. Based on two independent research projects in Bulgaria and Cyprus, the article advocates the active use of a new type of research participant, the intermediary. This relatively new interview participant is used to introduce and vouch for the credibility of the researcher. The paper argues their inclusion in the interview decreases a respondent’s resistance by improving rapport and by preventing concealment of information. They achieve the former by: creating an aura of trust, by providing emotional support to the respondent and by converting the interview to a friendly conversation. They achieve the latter by intervening at the moments when they consider the respondent is deliberately or unintentionally withholding information.
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- 2015
26. Consent in longitudinal intimacy research: adjusting formal procedure as a means of enhancing reflexivity in ethically important decisions
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Vivien M. Rooney
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Medical education ,Resource (project management) ,Data collection ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Longitudinal data ,Informed consent ,Reflexivity ,Ethical practice ,Duration (project management) ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Qualitative research - Abstract
Informed consent is a key issue in qualitative research. Conducting qualitative research longitudinally adds further complications to obtaining and maintaining informed consent. This paper illustrates how essential qualities of longitudinal research can be conceptualized as a resource to enhance ethical practice. In a research project on intimate relationships conducted with a cohort of participants, informed consent was addressed orally throughout the duration of the project. Following completion of the longitudinal data gathering, the formalities required as evidence of informed consent were only then conducted with each participant. With the written component of informed consent pending throughout the two year period of data collection, ongoing reflexivity during ethically important moments was enhanced. The author proposes that marking the conclusion of data gathering by obtaining written evidence of informed consent affords a means of enhancing ethical practice.
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- 2013
27. The narrative potential of the British Birth Cohort Studies
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Jane Elliott
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Research design ,History and Philosophy of Science ,British birth cohort studies ,Multimethodology ,Structured interview ,Sample (statistics) ,Narrative ,Gender studies ,Psychology ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Cohort study ,Developmental psychology ,Narrative inquiry - Abstract
This paper draws attention to the narrative potential of longitudinal studies such as the British Birth Cohort Studies (BBCS), and explores the possibility of creating narrative case histories and conducting narrative analysis based on information available from the studies. The BBCS have historically adopted a quantitative research design and used structured interviews and questionnaires to collect data from large samples of individuals born in specific years. However, the longitudinal nature of these studies means that they follow the same sample of individuals from birth through childhood into adult life, and this leads to the creation of data that can be understood as a quantitative auto/biography.
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- 2008
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