Focus groups and the study of violence

Pösö, Tarja; Honkatukia, Päivi; Nyqvist, Leo

doi:10.1177/1468794107085297

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“…In the present study, however, the ranking is not the only finding. On the contrary, besides the actual ranking of the drugs, data in this study include the interactions and the reflections upon the differences between the drugs (Pö sö , Honkatukia, & Nyqvist, 2008). The interaction in the focus groups is well suited to gaining knowledge about how negotiations between participants and what arguments are legitimate (Demant, 2008).…”

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Identifying drug risk perceptions in Danish youths: Ranking exercises in focus groups

Demant

Ravn

2010

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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Aim: This article develops an analytical approach for understanding the perceptions of drug-related risks among youths in general. These perceptions are central for comprehending how certain drugs become popular while others do not. The method is not only suited for understanding trends but would be able to provide relevant data for targeting and developing prevention strategies as well. Methods: We develop a specific methodology that combines a ranking exercise in focus groups with discourse theory as an analytical approach. This produces detailed information and provides a relatively efficient way of investigating risk perceptions. The methodology is developed in relation to a Danish case with 12 focus group interviews with youths aged from 17 to 22 years. Findings: The analysis identifies five discourses in the discussions on risk. These discourses position specific drugs as more or less harmful. Focusing on cannabis, ecstasy and cocaine, it appears that light cannabis use is seen as both harmless and accepted, whereas ecstasy is considered very dangerous. Cocaine has an ambiguous position, being perceived as neither harmless nor very dangerous.

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Identifying drug risk perceptions in Danish youths: Ranking exercises in focus groups

Demant

Ravn

2010

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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“…The goal of a focus group is "to collect data that is of interest to the researcher -typically to find the range of opinions of people across several groups" (Krueger and Casey 2009: 7). However, in focus group research, content analysis has been dominant while interactional meaning has long been neglected (e.g., Peek and Fothergill 2009;Pösö et al 2008).…”

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Intertextuality, mediation, and members’ categories in focus groups on humor

Furukawa

2010

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This paper extends studies on intertextuality into a more explicitly interactional context. I examine the actual process of intertextuality where comedy audiences construct recombinant selves through making sense of various membership categories as well as through making sense of a certain kind of comedy. The examination of this process requires receptive research; however, most studies leave the interpretive process unanalyzed. Conducting both a sequential analysis and a membership categorization analysis will reveal that categories are not "pre-formed" but "per-formed" in situ. To illustrate these points, I report on a receptive study of Local comedy in Hawai'i.

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“…The second substudy included also a study of violence experienced by the young people (Honkatukia et al, 2006(Honkatukia et al, , 2007Pösö et al, 2008).…”

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Revisiting Residential Care

Pösö

2010

Qualitative Social Work

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In this article, 'revisiting' refers to a variety of ways in which the researcher visits the research site again and in which the relations between the first and later visits are given some consideration substantially and methodologically. Revisiting may be done either for testing and/or enriching existing knowledge. It is claimed that time-aware research is needed in social work especially now when postmodern notions of continuous change are commonly present. Some ethnographic experiences of youth residential care are used to demonstrate the characteristics of revisiting. Revisiting tends to underline the importance of time, in particular biographical and institutional time and (shared) memories, as well as social relations within the field and their interwovenness. In the presented case study, revisiting highlights stability and changes equally and frames the issue of 'change' in a new way.

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Focus groups and the study of violence

Cited by 21 publications

References 7 publications

Identifying drug risk perceptions in Danish youths: Ranking exercises in focus groups

Identifying drug risk perceptions in Danish youths: Ranking exercises in focus groups

Intertextuality, mediation, and members’ categories in focus groups on humor

Revisiting Residential Care

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