Hi all
Just to note that in BNIM (an approach that I am employing myself at the
moment), 'why' questions are avoided at all costs so that the interviewee
does not feel that they have to justify what they have said or how they have
behaved, felt, etc. Questions are framed in order to elicit more
narratives/stories about the person's life.
The data from interviews can then be used to formulate themes and this is
where the notion of grounded theory comes into play. But, as has already
been noted, all interview data is subject to the researcher's own subjective
interpretation(s) and of course, the researcher is always going to carry a
certain number of presuppositions, even if these are not explicit to them or
others.
Good luck!
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From: "Andrew Bolger" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: grounded theory follow-up
> Hi Lillith at the risk of stating the obvious, it
> seems to me that all research presupposes many things,
> not least what might constitute a field of study and
> what are interesting questions arising out of that
> field.
> Trouble is, research projects need to be limited in
> order to make it manageable for the researcher. I
> think grounded theory, as a research method, is
> performed through a processof funnelling down. You
> start with a broad issue say 'disability' and
> 'oppression'and think of ways you might observe these
> phenomena, perhaps participant observation of a
> setting, perhaps collecting narratives, perhaps
> analysing texts. Then, if possible, do a pilot study
> applying this method to collecting your data in as
> open ended manner as you can. Then you go over your
> data looking for patterns; then formulate more
> specific questions arising from the patterns which you
> can address more directly.
> I think this approach works best if you have access to
> a setting where you can deploy indirect 'naturalistic'
> ways of collecting data without manufacturing it
> specifically to address your research questions. (Of
> course you will have to 'make' data and of course this
> process will be mediated by your interests,
> theoretical leanings etc etc, just try and show your
> workings and look for the counter arguments).
> Tom Wengraf who is on the narrative research use group
> advocates a technique he calls Biographical Narrative
> Interviewing Method (BNIM) which follows a similar
> funnelling pattern. In BNIM the interviewer starts by
> asking the person for the story of their life or how
> they got to where they are now and simply listens to
> their story for the next telling; then reviews the
> biography with them selecting critical points and
> asking for 'how' this happened 'what do you think
> would have happened if you had done something else?'
> questions before asking questions exploring themes
> that may have arisen out of previous interviews with
> other people. For example if your first interviewee
> talks a great deal about discrimination but your
> second doesn't mention it, you might say 'some people
> talk a lot about how they have been discriminated
> against but you haven't mentioned it, why do you think
> that is?'
> I suppose it all comes down to what do you want to do.
> If you want to prove or disprove a point grounded
> theory probably isn't the method of choice. If you
> want to explore how other people understand their own
> lives it can be quite a good way of trying to defer
> judgement until you have listened to other people's
> voices.
>
> --- LILITH Finkler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues: A week or so ago, I inquired about
>> disability studies
>> research which uses grounded theory methodology. I
>> received three responses
>> noted below.
>>
>> One response pointed out that grounded theory
>> specifically relies on the
>> emergence of theory from the data. Adherence to
>> social model
>> interpretations of disability, in contrast, presume
>> discrimination as at
>> least one aspect of the data in advance of any
>> "evidence" to support it.
>> There appears, at least on the face of it, an
>> inherent contradiction between
>> use of grounded theory and social model analyses of
>> disability oppression. I
>> am struggling with this as I write my methods
>> chapter. Any additional
>> insights into these issues are very welcome. Thanks,
>> Lilith
>>
> =============================================================
>>
>> Unpublished Dissertation:
>> Eva G (2007) Spinal cord compression secondary to
>> cancer: disability and
>> rehabilitation. Unpublished PhD thesis, University
>> of Stirling.
>>
>> From Beth Omansky:
>> I believe Sally French uses grounded theory in her
>> research(particularly on
>> vis. impaired physiotherapists) and also she and
>> John Swain have at least
>> one book about research methods -- all dis. studies.
>> Goodley and Lawthon's
>> (maybe more than two authors) Researching life
>> Stories examines various
>> theories and methodologies for use with the social
>> model, including grounded
>> theory specifically.
>>
>>
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