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- Title
Power, Positionality, and the Ethic of Care in Qualitative Research.
- Authors
Reich, Jennifer A.
- Abstract
Building on the definition offered by Aspers and Corte, I argue that qualitative research is not qualitative simply because it encodes for the ability "to get closer" to the phenomenon being studied, so much as it is anchored by a methodological obligation to critically examine how and why that closeness matters. Qualitative research considers the positionality of both the researcher and the researched as core aspects of inquiry to understand how knowledge and experience are situated, co-constructed, and historically and socially located. This methodological expectation for reflexivity does not just allow for richer data, but also requires researchers to consider power within and surrounding the research process and to employ an ethic of care for their subjects and for the overall work of qualitative research.
- Subjects
QUALITATIVE research; RESEARCHER positionality; REFLEXIVITY
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2021, Vol 44, Issue 4, p575
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-021-09500-4