Response Work

Approaching Answers to Open Interviews as Readings

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7364740
AutoresGerhard Nijhof (University of Amsterdam, autor de correspondencia)
Año1997
Volumen3
Número2
Páginas169-187
Fecha de publicación1997-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/107780049700300202
OpenAlexW2053679227
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas24

Two approaches to the analysis of textual data—exposition of the meaning of texts and interpretation by the researcher—are evaluated m a reanalysis of Oakley's (1980) research. Three assumptions of these approaches are established: (1) that a formulation's meaning can be located in the words of the formulation; (2) that a researcher can read the meaning; (3) that a theory can be used to clarify the meaning. All three assumptions are unacceptable in the field of empirical sociology, which regards social meaning not as being situated in the words of a formulation but instead as being realized in responses to, or readings of, previous formulations. Instead of exposing or interpreting the respondent's words, readings of formulations make it possible to describe the meaning of what the respondent is saying, first, by regarding the answer as a reading of the interviewer's question, and, second, by seeing it as an internal reading of the respondents' earlier formulations

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