”Are you going to write as we think or as you think?” – On (re)presentation and the construction of knowledge in interviews.

• "Are you going to write as we think or as you think?" - On (re)presentation and the construction of knowledge in interviews The aim of this contribution is to discuss and reflect on possibilities and restraints concerning (re)presentation and the construction/production of knowledge in interviews. Examples will mainly be taken from a research project on Turkish immigrant women attending Swedish language courses and their encounter with the Swedish educational system. The influence of the researcher in the interviews will be used actively in order to illustrate social interaction/negotiation and the relation between the interviewees and what the researcher is considered to represent. The interviewee as well as the interviewer is caught in prevalent extensive discourses articulated in the educational setting but also in the Swedish society in general. By talking about the SFI-education as a ’modern’ practice of knowledge, the educators themselves become representatives of ’modernity’ in relation to ’the others’. But the course participants are also a part of a powerful discourse of modernity – both in the present and in the past. Various self-images are confronted in the SFI-practice; a discursive practice connected to different aspects of power. ‘Emic’ and ‘etic’ categories – not a clear-cut distinction – will also be discussed in the contribution. Likewise some problematic dichotomies will be brought to the fore – the research object as well as the research subject tries to handle “the straightjacket of labelling”. Of interest is furthermore how constantly displacements take place in the informants’ ‘relational’ narratives as they talk into various discursive formations. When focusing on the position of the researcher in relation to the research object – in Bourdieu’s terms “to objectify the objectifying subject” (1992) – it is a question of reflexive sociology where the specific researcher is not really of interest, but rather the implicit social and theoretical presuppositions, which are embedded in the analytical tools and operations. Bourdieu, Pierre (1992) The Logic of Practice. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Internationell migration och etniska relationer (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- International Migration and Ethnic Relations (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

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identitetsskapande

genus

etnicitet

ubildningssociologi

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