Two kinds of natural

Potter, Jonathan

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“…Although the definition of naturalistic has been a source of some controversy (see, for example, Lynch, 2002;Potter, 2002;Speer, 2002a,b;ten Have, 2002) the criterion used here is that the activity being recorded would have happened as it would have anyway; it is not got up by the researcher, for example by way of an open-ended interview. The records are dubbed naturalistic rather than natural in recognition of a range of potential sources of what would traditionally be called reactivity involved in the recruitment, the recording and so on (for a highly relevant debate on this, see Hammersley, 2003;Speer & Hutchby, 2003).…”

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Qualitative interviews in psychology: problems and possibilities

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Hepburn

2005

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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This paper distinguishes a series of contingent and necessary problems that arise in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of open-ended or conversational qualitative interviews in psychological research. Contingent problems in the reporting of interviews include: (1) the deletion of the interviewer; (2) the conventions of representation of interaction; (3) the specificity of analytic observations; (4) the unavailability of the interview set-up; (5) the failure to consider interviews as interaction. Necessary problems include: (1) the flooding of the interview with social science agendas and categories; (2) the complex and varying footing positions of interviewer and interviewee; (3) the orientations to stake and interest on the part of the interviewer and interviewee; (4) the reproduction of cognitivism. The paper ends with two kinds of recommendation. First, we argue that interviews should be studied as an interactional object, and that study should feed back into the design, conduct and analysis of interviews so that they can be used more effectively in cases where they are the most appropriate data gathering tools. Second, these problems with open-ended interviews highlight a range of specific virtues of basing analysis on naturalistic materials. Reasons for moving away from the use of interviews for many research questions are described.

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Section: Naturalistic Recordsmentioning

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Qualitative interviews in psychology: problems and possibilities

Potter

Hepburn

2005

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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

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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Two kinds of natural

Cited by 153 publications

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Qualitative interviews in psychology: problems and possibilities

Qualitative interviews in psychology: problems and possibilities

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

Discursive Approaches to Race and Racism

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