Bourdieu’s Reflexive Sociology as a Theoretical Basis for Mixed Methods Research

Fries, Christopher J.

doi:10.1177/1558689809336660

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“…‘Pseudoscience’ and ‘nonsense’ were other common terms used in reports discussing specific modalities of CAM, as well as referring to CAM as the umbrella term for a whole swathe of undesirable practices and products. Because CAM therapies and products are so diverse, it is problematic to use this umbrella term to make generalisations about the legitimacy or efficacy of such a vast range of often paradigmatically different therapies (Broom and Tovey , Brosnan , Coulter and Willis , Derkatch , Doel and Segrott ,b, Fries 2008b, , Gale , Lewis 2011a, Wardle , Willis and White ). This ambiguity in what Fries (2008b) has referred to as the homogenisation of CAM enables the story to carry wider appeal to news audiences (Johnson‐Cartee ) and, as Wardle () argues, constructs CAM as ‘a dumping ground for therapies and practices that have little in common, meaning that well‐established therapies with good evidence of efficacy and safety are lumped in with whatever newly developed alternative health fad is being promoted on the internet’.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

De‐legitimising complementary medicine: framings of the Friends of Science in Medicine‐CAM debate in Australian media reports

Lewis

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has developed into a complex and formidable commercial, sociocultural and political force in Australia, and given its influence, it is a relevant subject for scholars, health practitioners, health communicators, journalists, policy‐makers, and consumers of healthcare products and services. This research will consider a relative newcomer to the claims‐making space about CAM in the Australian health media‐scape; the Friends of Science in Medicine (FSM), an activist group of medical practitioners, researchers, and scientists, founded in late 2011. Using content analysis supported by NVivo, I searched for articles specifically referring to FSM and measured the patterns and frequencies of media frames, intonation and sources that are featured in Australian mainstream news reports between December 2011 and April 2017. The negative headlining and intonation of reports predominated, along with framing CAM as part of a lucrative, undisciplined and unethical industry as well as an illegitimate healthcare approach, more broadly. The findings offer insight into how journalists respond, replicate or reconstruct the framings that are provided by an influential and elite group of medical practitioners and scientists, and readdresses issues surrounding the need for more critical health reporting in Australia.

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De‐legitimising complementary medicine: framings of the Friends of Science in Medicine‐CAM debate in Australian media reports

Lewis

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…The main reason can be explained by the continuing dominance of medical disciplines in this research domain, which largely rely on quantitative study approaches (e.g. Barrett et al 2008 ;Fries 2009 ) .…”

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The Role of Community-Mindedness in the Self-Regulation of Drug Cultures

Stallwitz¹

2012

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“…This research question warrants the use of mixed methods (Fries, 2009). Intellectual triangulation is employed to grasp the totality of a phenomenon.…”

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Multifaceted Appearance Management as Cultural Practice

Kwon¹,

Kwon²

2013

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Appearance management is a self-identification process that extends beyond mere appearance enhancement activities. In this study, we conceptualized multifaceted appearance management as a cultural practice imbued with a variety of meanings and goals. We employed mixed methods. The quantitative study was to objectify and explain a macro trend by analyzing large-scale data collected from a representative sample and revealed that multifaceted appearance management is a function of cultural capital. The qualitative study was to gain a better understanding of how individual actions and meanings that occur during appearance management create social distinction by analyzing in-depth interviews and demonstrated how the complexity and diversity of meanings reflect the self-identification process in appearance consumption. Our findings revealed that a tendency toward multifaceted appearance management is related to contextual self-presentation drawing upon cultural capital and that cultural capital is manifested by the process in which consumption becomes integrated into self-identification.

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Bourdieu’s Reflexive Sociology as a Theoretical Basis for Mixed Methods Research

Cited by 48 publications

References 53 publications

De‐legitimising complementary medicine: framings of the Friends of Science in Medicine‐CAM debate in Australian media reports

De‐legitimising complementary medicine: framings of the Friends of Science in Medicine‐CAM debate in Australian media reports

The Role of Community-Mindedness in the Self-Regulation of Drug Cultures

Multifaceted Appearance Management as Cultural Practice

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