Using Fiction to Reveal Truth: Challenges of Using Vignettes to Understand Participant Experiences Within Qualitative Research

Rizvi, Sana

doi:10.17169/fqs-20.1.3101

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“…Prior literature suggests various explanations for how vignette responses should be interpreted. Some studies suggest that respondents reflect on their own experiences when answering vignettes (Rizvi, 2019), others suggest that vignette responses reflect respondent attitudes (Schoenberg & Ravdal, 2000), and others posit that the further detached a scenario is from a respondent's reality, the more challenging it is to determine the respondent's ability to relate to it (Wilson & While, 1998). Killing is a relatively rare behavior so would not necessarily be close to many respondents' everyday reality, particularly for some people who spend less time in forests.…”

Section: Killing Remains a Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Killing of orangutans in Kalimantan ‐ Community perspectives on incidence and drivers

Massingham,

Meijaard,

Ancrenaz

et al. 2023

Conservat Sci and Prac

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Despite decades of conservation management, many orangutan populations are on the brink of extinction. This is primarily due to habitat loss and direct killings. A study from 2008/2009 suggested that killing was impacting orangutan populations at a rate sufficient to cause local extinctions. As an illegal and taboo behavior that is difficult to measure, killing has been severely understudied since. We conducted 431 interviews in 79 villages across Kalimantan in 2020/2021. Ours is the first quantitative field study in more than 10 years to assess the state of killing of orangutans. We aimed to: (1) assess the current state of killing of orangutans in Kalimantan and compare this to the previous study; (2) determine whether conservation projects are affecting killing; and (3) explore drivers of killing. We examined killing of orangutans across villages with forest conservation projects, orangutan conservation projects, and no conservation projects. We assessed the existence of killing and used scenarios to examine perceived norms about illegal behavior relating to orangutans. We then used matching techniques to assess whether projects have any impact on these indicators. Overall, our findings suggest that killing has occurred in recent times, and our data does not indicate a clear attenuation of the behavior. As such, we argue that killing may still present a substantial threat to Bornean orangutan populations. We also found no statistically significant evidence that conservation projects are reducing killing. Conservation project managers could seek to understand the drivers of killing, and to invest in interventions that address these drivers. Research suggests that current allocation of conservation funding has been ineffective at abating orangutan population decline. We argue that a key part of improving Bornean orangutan conservation practice involves directly addressing killing of orangutans and the underlying drivers of killing.

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Section: Killing Remains a Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Killing of orangutans in Kalimantan ‐ Community perspectives on incidence and drivers

Massingham,

Meijaard,

Ancrenaz

et al. 2023

Conservat Sci and Prac

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“…While these factors would indicate an alignment of vignette-based inquiry with constructivist epistemology, the notion that vignettes are designed to approximate “real life” parameters of social situations (Ghanem et al, 2018; Wilks, 2004) suggests otherwise. Indeed, by recognizing that the purpose of vignettes is to simulate material conditions that are believed to exist outside the research encounter, researchers incorporate these instruments with the presupposition of a “reality” that is more or less intelligible across members of a participant population (Rizvi, 2019). The paradigmatic ambiguity of vignette-based inquiry may, understandably, raise questions of rigor, given the importance of paradigmatic alignment in qualitative research (Rose and Johnson, 2020).…”

Section: Text Vignettes In Social Work Research and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, some researchers anchored in critical traditions of scholarship have pointed out the value of this liminality in research involving marginalized people. Vignettes can harness the agency of subjugated participants to construct their own understandings of a situation, while simultaneously acknowledging systems of marginalization operating in their lives (Rizvi, 2019). This position aligns with historical social work scholarship on case study methodology, which has highlighted the utility of case studies as means of rendering visible contextual (and often constructed) features of a given situation or lived experience, particularly for the purpose of informing practice, while at the same time acknowledging material conditions that make specific cases compelling as sites of analysis and theorization (Gilgun, 1994).…”

Section: Text Vignettes In Social Work Research and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing critical social work practice: Using text-based vignettes in qualitative research

Kia

2023

Qualitative Social Work

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There exist ongoing calls among social work scholars and practitioners to cultivate applied knowledge of critical and emancipatory practice. In this paper, I explore the utility of text-based vignettes as instruments that can be used to elicit insight from marginalized service users on critical social work practice. To do this work, I draw on data from interviews with 20 transgender and gender diverse (TGD) social service users, along with 10 social workers, whose responses to a text-based vignette were originally used to build an understanding of the constituents of equitable social work practice with TGD people. Incorporating critical pragmatism as a conceptual framework and constructivist grounded theory as a methodological orientation, I analyze data from this study as an exemplar that substantiates the promise of using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research to generate knowledge of critical social work practice. Specifically, I demonstrate how text-based vignettes in this study (1) contextualized the meaning, significance, and impact of oppression for service users, (2) built insight on practice that reflects solidarity and allyship, and (3) identified opportunities for social workers’ reflexive use of professional power to effect change. Accounting for the tensions between empiricism and critical praxis in social work, I consider the promise of incorporating text-based vignettes to develop empirical social work literature that is rooted in the voices of marginalized service users.

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“…Past scholars (e.g., Barter & Renold, 2000;Bradbury-Jones et al, 2014;Rizvi, 2019) suggest that the vignette can be constructed from the research findings of previous research, pilot interviews, real-life perspectives, and literature reviews. This study aims to examine industry actors' responses to the policy intervention.…”

Section: Qualitative-vignette Design Construction and Applicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowing the Unknown: Application of Qualitative-Vignette Method in the Social-Political Sensitive Business Environment

Cheah

Koay

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This study demonstrates that vignette, when added to the in-depth interview, is a useful data collection method to uncover the hidden truths in the socio-political sensitive business environment. The vignette method’s “less personal” nature motivates the participants, who initially declined to be interviewed, to accept the interview invitation. This study showcases how the vignette is designed, constructed, and applied in empirical research. It also demonstrates the types of cognitive questions that can be incorporated in the vignette to uncover the social norms in practice that are silently known as the rules of the game. This study provides methodological considerations in constructing the vignette that may impact its success. Using the empirical data from the Malaysian housing sector, the thematic analysis shows that the vignette method: (i) stimulates participants to provide in-depth interpretation, (ii) uncovers the hidden information, and can (iii) fill in the missing details that participants initially reluctant to disclose. The findings are discussed, along with the limitations of using the qualitative-vignette method. Some critical suggestions for future research are also included.

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Using Fiction to Reveal Truth: Challenges of Using Vignettes to Understand Participant Experiences Within Qualitative Research

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Killing of orangutans in Kalimantan ‐ Community perspectives on incidence and drivers

Killing of orangutans in Kalimantan ‐ Community perspectives on incidence and drivers

Enhancing critical social work practice: Using text-based vignettes in qualitative research

Knowing the Unknown: Application of Qualitative-Vignette Method in the Social-Political Sensitive Business Environment

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