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Working Between Worlds: Qualitative Methods and Social Psychology
Author(s) -
Marecek Jeanne,
Fine Michelle,
Kidder Louise
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/0022-4537.00040
Subject(s) - qualitative research , subjectivity , psychology , field (mathematics) , social worlds , social psychology , sociology , epistemology , social science , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
We invite social psychologists in the United States to join with psychologists in other countries and with researchers in other disciplines to include qualitative approaches in their research repertory. Several classic studies in social psychology used field‐based qualitative approaches, yet in recent decades, these ways of working have been on the margins of American social psychology. We explore what a qualitative stance offers and entails, giving examples from our own and others' research. The relentless attention that qualitative workers have given to issues of bias, subjectivity, and research ethics prompts us to consider how such issues are always present in research, regardless of its methods.