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- Akram, Owasim, 1983-
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Getting Extreme Poverty Narrated : Methodological Challenges of Interviewing Older Persons
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. - : Sage Publications. - 1609-4069. ; 20, s. 1-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Interviewing different groups involves different challenges and opportunities. Older persons living in extreme poverty are among those who warrant special methodological considerations. Building on the experiences of life-history interviews with extreme poor older persons in Bangladesh, this article contributes with a methodological reflection on the interview process from the start to the end. The article highlights the key practical, emotional, and ethical concerns that impact the interview process. Adopting an activist approach, it asserts that offering additional power and (or) agency to poor and vulnerable participants yields more benefit to research. The article challenges the traditional consent-seeking process as it remains short of protecting the participants fully. Period of silence appears to be crucial in interviews for which a researcher should devise schemes on how to manage and analyze silence as a non-textual interview content. The paper stresses on the need to frame plans and protocols for the researchers themselves as they can be exposed to mental, physical, or social harm. It recommends reformulation of the idea of accountability toward the research participants in relation to incentivisation, dissemination and reporting back to the community. Understanding all such nuances and careful dealing of micro-ethical aspects are crucial to succeed in an interview. The article can be particularly beneficial for early-stage researchers who conduct interviews with people living in extreme poverty, as it makes them more aware and prepared to deal with the possible challenges inherent in different stages of the interview process.
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- Amsteus, Martin
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The Validity of Divergent Grounded Theory Method
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. - : SAGE Publications. - 1609-4069. ; 13, s. 71-87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article is to assess whether divergence of grounded theory method may be considered valid. A review of literature provides a basis for understanding and evaluating grounded theory. The principles and nature of grounded theory are synthesized along with theoretical and practical implications. It is deduced that for a theory to be truly grounded in empirical data, the method resulting in the theory should be the equivalent of pure induction. Therefore, detailed, specified, stepwise a priori procedures may be seen as unbidden or arbitrary. It is concluded that divergent grounded theory can be considered valid. The author argues that securing methodological transparency through the description of the actual principles and procedures employed, as well as tailoring them to the particular circumstances, is more important than adhering to predetermined stepwise procedures. A theoretical foundation is provided from which diverse theoretical developments and methodological procedures may be developed, judged, and refined based on their own merits.
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- Andersson, Åsa, 1973, et al.
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Thinking With New Materialism in Qualitative Case Studies
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. - : SAGE Publications. - 1609-4069. ; 19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © The Author(s) 2020. In this article, we discuss challenges and implications of thinking with new materialisms and the Deleuzian philosophy of immanence in qualitative case studies. The aim is to establish a terrain and language of “minor case studies.” Deleuze denies two-world ontologies and the ontologically status of single bodies, emphasizing instead how assemblages of human and non-human bodies together produce the world. In this terrain, cases are not objects of inquiry, but life-giving forces that create movement. This in turn changes the premises for how we can approach and explore cases. Rather than represent, comment and explain what cases are, we illustrate how a case-assemblage creates possibilities for event-based thinking regarding interesting phenomena (cases), and how these cases are twisted, stretched and pulled out of a conventional case study design. We conclude by discussing epistemological consequences of new materialist ontology.
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- Asp, Margareta, 1958-, et al.
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Developing concepts in caring science based on a lifeworld perspective
- 2005
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. - 1609-4069. ; 4:2, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Concept development is a significant form of inquiry to expand and develop the knowledge base in caring science. The authors´aim in this article is to illuminate the possibility of working with concept development, based on a life world perspective, especially Merleau-Ponty´s philosophy of language, wherein phenomenological, semiological, and pragmatic dimensions are included. the theoretical discussion shows that it is possible to create methodological principles for concept development based on epistemological foundations that are consistent with ontological assumptions in caring science.
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- Beach, Dennis, 1956-, et al.
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On Developments in Ethnographic Research: The Case of Two Swedish Universities
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. - : SAGE Publications. - 1609-4069. ; 21
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The past 40 years have formed a transitional period in Sweden’s education and political history. The social democratic reforms from the 1940s that aimed to create a centralised, expanded and integrated comprehensive education system came to an end. Decentralisation, neoliberal governance and the introduction of new public management with the creation of private schools and competition have shaped the policy regime since then. Ethnography emerged in Swedish educational research as a significant research methodology during this transitional period. Using a qualitative and quantitative investigation of research dissertations that classified and counted the use of ethnography as either classical (using core references and long-term participation research at one or a limited number of sites), or adapted (used within adaptations to other research methods), the present article explores these developments at two universities. It suggests that Swedish education ethnography has developed along similar kinds of historical trajectories to ethnography in other places, with roots similar to those in other European countries, though also with some variations. For instance, as elsewhere, ethnography needed a breakthrough point in Swedish education research. It got this in the 1980s. However, it quickly became an important part of educational research from the 1990s onwards and a strong quantitative take off early in the new millennium followed. Presently more than half of all PhD dissertations in Education at the two universities have some kind of participant observation, over half of which are also classically ethnographic. This leads us to conclude that education ethnography in Sweden has changed across its period of growth and that though configured in contemporary social science as having originated in anthropology as a methodology that employed long-term embedded participant observation, this does not limit the variations of ethnography’s development or its application.
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- Bolin, Göran, 1959-, et al.
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Conducting Online Focus Group Interviews With Two Generations : Methodological Experiences and Reflections From the Pandemic Context
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. - : Sage Publications. - 1609-4069. ; 22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, many research projects were forced to adapt their design and conduct interviews online. This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of using online focus groups with participants representing different generations and cultural and social backgrounds. Based on the researchers’ experiences and field notes from a three-country comparative project, aiming at analysing the extent to which previous experience of state surveillance impacted attitudes to commercial monitoring and tracking of online behaviour among two generational cohorts, the paper identifies seven aspects where the move from offline to online interviewing interfered with the original research design. The paper suggests that most of these interferences resulted in a need to adjust the methodology to better fit the online setting. We reflect critically upon the issues of technological preconditions and digital skills, recruitment, group size, degrees of previous acquaintance, the role of the interviewer, participants’ household status and media environment, and ethical considerations concerning privacy and data management. Based on these methodological insights, we conclude that future online focus group research would benefit from using smaller groups and adjusted moderation, flexibility in interviewing tools and channels, and new, online-specific ethical considerations when planning, executing, and analysing interviews. The paper advocates the complementarity between in-person and online focus groups as two modalities of data collection and argues for the normalization of hybrid methods. © The Author(s) 2023.
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- Bryant, Lia, et al.
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Exploring the Gendering of Space by Using Memory Work as a Reflexive Research Methodology
- 2007
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. - 1609-4069. ; 6:3, s. 29-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How can memory work be used as a pathway to reflect on the situatedness of the researcher and field of inquiry? The key aim of this article is to contribute to knowledge about the gendering of space developed by feminist geographers by using memory work as a reflexive research method. The authors present a brief review of feminist literature that covers the local, and global, symbolic meanings of spaces and the power relations within which space is experienced. From the literature they interpret themes of the interconnections between space, place, and time; sexualization of public space; and the bodily praxis of using space. Our memories of gendered bodies and landscapes, movement and restricted space, and the disrupting of space allow us to explore conceptualizations within the literature as active, situated, fragmented, and contextualized.
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- Bryant, Lia, et al.
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Location and Unlocation : Examining Gender and Telephony through AutoEthnographic Textual and Visual Methods
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. - : SAGE Publications. - 1609-4069. ; 12, s. 403-419
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Studies on gender and telephony tend to be quantitative and depict the purposes for which women and men use mobile telephones and landlines. Qualitative studies on the topic predominantly rely on face-to-face interviews to examine how telephone use genders space. We suggest these traditional methods of data collection leave unexamined the emotional and social relationships that emerge and are enabled by telephone use which at times reconfigure and gender social spaces. In this article we present a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry based on our own telephone lives. We introduce a reflexive visual and textual methodological design, specifically diary notes, memory work, and photography, developed from our lives as researcher and researched. We examine an important theme in our findings, the physical placement of the telephone and the phone holder’s awareness of the physicality of the telephone, which illustrates the importance of our methodological choices. We show how the placement of the phone by the users both genders space and creates emotional spaces.
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