Six Rules of Qualitative Research

A Post-Romantic Argument

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2480977
AutoresDavid J Silverman (Goldsmiths University of London, autor de correspondencia), David Silverman (0000-0002-6648-3098)
Año1989
Volumen12
Número2
Páginas215-230
Fecha de publicación1989-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSymbolic Interaction (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0195-6086 • E-ISSN: 1533-8665
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/si.1989.12.2.215
OpenAlexW1972797202
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas37

Qualitative sociology too easily succumbs to a 'Romantic' impulse. In a sociological context, the Romantic seeks to understand raw 'experience', usually by the use of unstructured interviews. Such work can lack analytic rigour, failing to distinguish the sociologist from the journalist. Following Wittgenstein and Garfinkel, the approach adopted here emphasizes the forms of representation and contexts which inform practical reasoning. It recommends a non-Romantic sociology-an aspiration curiously shared by Durkheim-and suggests some ways to pursue it

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