Qualitative Data Analysis: An Introduction - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 8
About This Presentation
Title:

Qualitative Data Analysis: An Introduction

Description:

Qualitative Data Analysis: An Introduction Carol Grbich Chapter 5 : Feminist Research Feminist research principles that there is inequality in our society constructed ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:76
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 9
Provided by: John4343
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: Qualitative Data Analysis: An Introduction


1
Qualitative Data Analysis An Introduction
  • Carol Grbich
  • Chapter 5 Feminist Research

2
Feminist research principles
  1. that there is inequality in our society
    constructed along gender lines - women are
    subordinate to men in socioeconomic status and
    decision making power.
  2. that current modes of knowledge disadvantage
    women by devaluing their ways of knowing
  3. that highlighting the experiences of women
    through research and allowing their voices to be
    heard may go some way to making inequalities more
    widely recognised
  4. that transformation of society through the
    empowerment and emancipation of women are
    desirable outcomes.

3
The researcher and the researched
  • Relationship guidelines
  • non-exploitative relationships between you and
    those you are researching
  • exposure of your position, your personal
    biography, your emotions and values and how these
    impact on data gathering, analytical and
    interpretative phases
  • the voices of the researched should be heard in
    their own words and ownership of narratives
    should be shared between you and these people in
    an egalitarian manner

4
Empowerment of participants
  • Ways of managing empowerment
  • Recognise the value driven nature of research
  • Practice reflexivity
  • Participants drive the research agenda
  • Focus on improvement of participants lives as
    the major outcome
  • Include a diversity of participants including
    elites
  • Use language which is meaningful to
    participants
  • Contextualise data so readers can make their own
    judgments
  • Present ways in which women may improve their
    situation.
  • (Adapted from Wadsworth 20014-5)

5
Feminist data analysis
  • Use feminist theoretical frames
  • Focus on an extensive display of participants
    voices
  • Joint ownership of data interpretation

6
Memory Work
  • The researcher is also a participant
  • Involves the tracing of memories and their
    construction from each co-researchers
    perspective
  • The group takes the collective memories and
    seeks to understand how each memory as come to be
    constructed in this particular way and how
    interaction within the wider society has created
    and reinforced oppression.
  • Theoretical constructs are applied to the
    memories by the researcher

7
Criticisms of memory work
  • Using friends/close acquaintances to form the
    group is not ideal
  • Women with no background nor interest in
    academic theory may become subjects and/or
    experience minimal emancipation or transformation
  • The group may tend to indulge in primitive
    psychotherapeutics
  • Marxist frameworks emphasise action as conformity
    rather than resistance

8
Limitations of Memory work
  • Emancipation is not always the outcome
  • Theoretical perspectives are not always
    meaningful to participants
  • How are differences of opinion to be managed in
    the group process?
  • Is it possible to share ownership with a
    researcher who will ultimately gain through
    publishing the work?
  • In terms of analysis and final publication, what
    happens to the personal material from the first
    and second stages?
  • Whose voices are being silenced when issues of
    academic credibility are important?
  • What happens to notions of emancipation and
    transformation when the groups are more
    interested in sharing than theorising their
    experiences (Onyx and Small
    2001)
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com