Doing Qualitative Research Differently: Free Association, Narrative and the Interview Method

✍ Scribed by Wendy Hollway, Tony Jefferson

• Publisher: SAGE
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 175
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is both a `how to' book and one that critically reviews many of the assumptions, claims and methods of qualitative research. Applying a psycho-social understanding of subjectivity to research practice involves conceptualising researcher and researched as co-producers of meanings in the research relationship. The authors use the notion of the "defended subject" to indicate that people will defend themselves against any anxieties in the information they provide in a research context. To interpret interviewees' responses should entail developing a method in which narratives are central, as should a strategy of interpretation in which interviewees' free associations are given precedence over narrative coherence. The author

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
1 - Introduction: The Need to Do Research Differently......Page 10
2 - Researching the Fear of Crime......Page 16
3 - Producing Data with Defended Subjects......Page 35
4 - Analysing Data Produced with Defended Subjects......Page 64
5 - The Ethics of Researching Psychosocial Subjects......Page 92
6 - Biography, Demography and Generalisability......Page 113
7 - A Psychosocial Case Study......Page 139
Afterword......Page 164
Appendix: Pro Forma......Page 166
References......Page 167
Index......Page 172