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Résumé Lors d’une recherche psychosociologique, l’auteur analyse son implication : son thème d’investigation est « la parentalité parent entendant/enfant sourd » et elle est, elle-même, mère entendante d’un enfant sourd ; sa position singulière redéfinissant les clivages classiques : expert/profane, objectif/subjectif, observateur/objet observé, rationalité explicative/témoignage de l’expérience vécue. En regard de la thématique de la séparation/rencontre telle qu’elle apparaît dans la méthodologie de recherche et dans le champ du handicap, elle analyse les réactions du milieu de la recherche par rapport à sa situation de « l’entre-deux » (interdiction vs incitation à faire de la recherche sur la parentalité en situation de handicap), de même que ses propres réponses (résistance ou accord) à ces réactions ; ces interactions faisant partie intégrante de son objet de recherche. Elle pose la question du rapport entre l’implication du chercheur, sa neutralité et son engagement militant dans le cadre de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales.

Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Analysis Applied to Semi-Structured Interviews: Representations of Handicap. This article presents an exploratory process in methodological research to link the use of computer data processing with a qualitative analysis of categories in a sample of semi-structured Interviews. After presenting the theoretical basis for the analytical grid, and the problems encountered in its application to qualitative material, the authors explain their use of a data base which allows processing the categories with the help of a data segmentation and classification software (AC2). This analysis was carried out secondarily on the catégories established by the researchers in order to produce a more precise representation of the way the different variables were organised, by pinpointing their discriminating power. This automatic method is used as a complementary tool for systematising results obtained with the qualitative method and to support interprétations based on exhaustive consideration of these catégories.

In France, as opposed to most European countries, the term ''handicap'' is not only used as a noun, but also as an attribute to designate people living with disabilities. Thus, it was of particular interest to understand the representations, the metaphors and the meanings related to the term ''handicap''. A qualitative study, using in-depth open-ended interviews was carried out in France. The material collected was analysed through a content analysis, in order to identify the metaphors and shed light on their underlying meanings. Our study has demonstrated that the representations of handicap do not reflect word for word the official classification separating the motor, sensorial, mental and social components of disabilities. In the representations, the various components are restructured in different configurations, which give specific meanings and values to each one in the context of a global representation of human social functioning and its avatars. ''Mental handicap'' appears to be the most handicapping of all disabilities and functions as metaphor for all the conditions, states, situations and persons designated by the term ''handicap''.

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