`Natural' and `contrived' data: a sustainable distinction?

Speer, Susan A.

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“…CA's commitment to naturally occurring data is at times even built into its definitions (Speer, 2002). Hutchby and Wooffitt (1998, p.14) for instance, describe CA as 'the study of recorded, naturally occurring talk-in-interaction' (italics in original).…”

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“…However, several scholars have acknowledged that there is no black and white distinction between natural and non-natural data, since the status of data as 'naturalistic' depends on how one treats it (Lynch, 2002;Potter, 2002;Speer, 2002, Ten Have, 2002. In addition, the ideal of unbiased, 'direct access' (Atkinson and Heritage, 1984, p. 2-3) to 'what is there' is problematic.…”

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“…Pollner, 1991). ix 'Bias', in the sense that interview responses are 'influenced' by the presence of other interactants, is not only unavoidable but also a theoretically interesting object of analysis for those interested in social interaction (Speer, 2002). Moreover, the focus on the sequential organisation of talk makes the influence of the interviewer's turns analysable.…”

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The role of context in conversation analysis: Reviving an interest in ethno-methods

Kok

2008

Journal of Pragmatics

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Kok

2008

Journal of Pragmatics

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“…While this term has been a matter of some contestation (see, e.g., Potter, 2002;Speer, 2002), it is widely used to refer to interactions that would have taken place independently of the researcher's use of them as data sources, thereby enabling the examination of interactional features that were not produced in the service of a research agenda (see, e.g., Schegloff, 1993). This distinguishes these data sources from interviews and focus groups, which, as noted above, virtually unavoidably involve participants being recruited on the basis of their membership in particular categories, and the interaction being to a greater or lesser degree controlled, shaped, or at least initiated by the researcher's specific concerns.…”

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Discursive Approaches to Race and Racism

Whitehead¹

2017

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication

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SummaryIn the wake of what has been called the "discursive turn" or "linguistic turn" in the social sciences, research at the intersection of language and communication and race and racism shifted from being largely dominated by quantitative and experimental methods to include qualitative and particularly discursive approaches. While the term "discursive" potentially encompasses a wide range of modes of discourse analysis, discursive approaches share in common a focus on language use as social action, and as a constitutive feature of actions, events and situations, rather than as merely a passive means of describing or transmitting information about them.When applied to the study of race and racism, such approaches have examined ways in which language functions to construct, maintain and legitimate as well as subvert or resist racial and/or racist ideologies and social structures.Research in these areas has made use of a range of empirical materials, including "elite" texts and talk (media texts, parliamentary debates, academic texts, etc.), individual interviews, focus groups and group discussions, "naturally occurring" talk-in-interaction from conversational and institutional settings, and text-based online interactions. Although these different data types should not be seen as strictly mutually exclusive, each of them serves to foreground particular features of racial or racist discourse(s), thus facilitating or constraining particular sorts of discourse analytic findings. Thus, different data sources respectively tend to foreground ideological features of racial discourse(s) and their intersection with power and domination, 2 including examination of "new" racisms and the production and management of accusations and denials of racism; discursive processes involved in the construction and uses of racial subjectivities and identities; interactional processes through which prejudice and racism are constructed and contested; and the everyday interactional reproduction of systems of racial categories, independently of whether the talk in which they occur can or should be considered "racist".

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“…63–65 Naturalistic data can be contrasted with data that emerge through the suppression of normal routines (such as in the lab) or the structure imposed by research tools. 66 Some argue that naturalistic inquiry provides a particularly apt strategy for investigating causality because it characterizes “the qualitative nature of social objects and relations on which causal mechanisms depend (p.4).” 67 Indeed, many causative agents of interest in schizophrenia (e.g., social support, motivation) probably function contingently rather than deterministically, exerting salutary or detrimental – and substantial or minimal -- effects, depending upon adjacent factors. Observations are also closely tied to the types of specific behaviors that could be targeted for intervention or that serve as indicators of treatment outcomes.…”

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A Video Ethnography Approach for Linking Naturalistic Behaviors to Research Constructs of Neurocognition in Schizophrenia

Bromley¹,

Adams²,

Brekke³

2012

JNP

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Few methods are available to explore the impact of neurocognition in schizophrenia on behaviors performed in usual contexts. The authors developed a video ethnography approach to examine the relationship between naturalistic behaviors and research constructs of neurocognition. Video ethnographers accompanied subjects through usual routines gathering continuous video data. Researchers developed codes to measure four behavioral domains observed on video. This paper describes the psychometric characteristics to be considered in the development of observational approaches. It also highlights differences between behaviors performed in usual environments and neuropsychological constructs. The authors demonstrate that everyday behaviors that have been shown to correspond to neurocognitive skills in a pilot feasibility study1 can be identified and rated. They further suggest that observational methods could provide novel strategies for linking research findings and clinical concerns.

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`Natural' and `contrived' data: a sustainable distinction?

Cited by 97 publications

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The role of context in conversation analysis: Reviving an interest in ethno-methods

The role of context in conversation analysis: Reviving an interest in ethno-methods

Discursive Approaches to Race and Racism

A Video Ethnography Approach for Linking Naturalistic Behaviors to Research Constructs of Neurocognition in Schizophrenia

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