Inside out: what we (don’t) talk about when we talk about research

Simovska, Venka; Lagermann, Laila Colding; Abduljalil, Heba Salah; Mørck, Line Lerche; Kousholt, Dorte

doi:10.1177/1468794117749165

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“…Taking active measures to detect and limit biases strengthens the rigor and transparency of qualitative research and provides opportunities for reflexive contemplation. To this end, embracing tensions and ambiguity in research, and leaving room for flexibility, creativity, and responsiveness can lead researchers to new insights (Simovska et al, 2019).…”

Section: Preempting Social Desirability Biasmentioning

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“Everything Is Perfect, and We Have No Problems”: Detecting and Limiting Social Desirability Bias in Qualitative Research

2019

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Many qualitative research studies acknowledge the possibility of social desirability bias (a tendency to present reality to align with what is perceived to be socially acceptable) as a limitation that creates complexities in interpreting findings. Drawing on experiences conducting interviews and focus groups in rural Ethiopia, this article provides an empirical account of how one research team developed and employed strategies to detect and limit social desirability bias. Data collectors identified common cues for social desirability tendencies, relating to the nature of the responses given and word choice patterns. Strategies to avoid or limit bias included techniques for introducing the study, establishing rapport, and asking questions. Pre-fieldwork training with data collectors, regular debriefing sessions, and research team meetings provided opportunities to discuss social desirability tendencies and refine approaches to account for them throughout the research. Although social desirability bias in qualitative research may be intractable, it can be minimized.

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Section: Preempting Social Desirability Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Everything Is Perfect, and We Have No Problems”: Detecting and Limiting Social Desirability Bias in Qualitative Research

2019

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“…During iterative passes through the data, I was unsure about the meaning of the initial codes but had a sense of “something emerging but not yet there” (Simovska et al, 2019: 120). I intuitively moved from asking, “What’s happening here?” to asking, “What does this accomplish?” With this subtle shift, the data took on new meaning.…”

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Poetry and prose as methodology: A synergy of knowing

Parsons

Pinkerton

2022

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In this study, situated in the borderland between traditional and artistic methodologies, we innovatively represent our research findings in both prose and poetry. This is an act of exploration and resistance to hegemonic assumptions about legitimate research writing. A content analysis of young adult literature featuring trafficked child soldiers is the vehicle through which we advocate for the simultaneous use of prose and poetry. Several overarching insights emerged from this work as our prose and poetic representations, taken together, did more than either could have done on its own. We noted significant differences in scope, impact, and use of words when representing findings in the two forms. Additionally, independently selecting many of the same quotes as we created our separate representations contributed to the validity of the analysis. We saw very concretely that what one knows in one form one might know differently in another, generating a synergy of knowing.

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“…Feminism (e.g. Davies et al, 2001, Gillies et al, 2005, Simovska et al, 2019, Stephenson, 2005. The feminist project of understanding and emancipating the self was conceived as an ideology critique, politicizing the private in a communal practice.…”

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Recognizing motives: The dissensual self

Nissen¹,

Friis²

2020

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This article proposes to approach issues around the self and its derivate concepts such as motivation through a methodology of rearticulation. For this, we build on the idea developed in the (broadly) Vygotskian tradition of the self as mediated by cultural artifacts in activity, viewed as a transformative social process that reconfigures sense and meaning. We aim at suggesting these potentials by rearticulating activities in which people display (represent, avow, reflect, expose, externalize, etc.) their motives. Most contemporary ‘motivational technologies’ stage a pragmatic self-calculation. For some, these technologies confirm a common-sense, managerial self; others read them as a ‘poetics of practice’ that performs and produces new motives and selves in a liminal space of discursive creativity. These two readings are superseded as we – with art theory from Vygotsky through Brecht to Groys, Bourriaud and Rancière – consider drug counsellors’ experiments with aesthetic practices of self-display in which sense is reconfigured as dis-sensus, as meaning deferred. Aesthetics provide a lense through which we can appreciate how an artifact-mediation can be also a struggle for recognition that reconstitutes emerging selves, senses, and motives.

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Inside out: what we (don’t) talk about when we talk about research

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

“Everything Is Perfect, and We Have No Problems”: Detecting and Limiting Social Desirability Bias in Qualitative Research

“Everything Is Perfect, and We Have No Problems”: Detecting and Limiting Social Desirability Bias in Qualitative Research

Poetry and prose as methodology: A synergy of knowing

Recognizing motives: The dissensual self

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