Steinar Kvale
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 78189 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steinar Kvale |
| PRENOMES | Steinar |
| SOBRENOME | Kvale |
| ASSINATURA | KVALE S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aarhus University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 376 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Doing Interviews
Memory and Dialectics
The metaphysical character of psychological memory research that originated with Ebbinghaus is pointed out. This research emphasizes isolated, static elements and quantitative relationships; it often implies the concept of a permanent memory. In contrast, a dialectical approach focuses on development of memory through contradictions which lead to qualitative changes. Both the process of remembering and research on memory take place in a sociohist…
Qualitative Inquiry between Scientistic Evidentialism, Ethical Subjectivism and the Free Market
A critical analysis of the uses to which qualitative inquiry is put in marketing and management research is offered. The naive romantic belief that qualitative qualitative is inherently liberating and empowering is also criticized. The relationship between positivism, qualitative inquiry and the audit culture is analyzed
Doing Interviews
Dominance Through Interviews and Dialogues
The article discusses common conceptions of interviews as dialogues and the extensive application of qualitative research interviews in a consumer society. In the first part, an understanding of research interviews as warm, caring, and empowering dialogues is questioned by highlighting power asymmetries in interview relationships. Agonistic interview techniques, which play on contradictions and power differences, are outlined. The second part of …
Confronting the Ethics of Qualitative Research
In this article we question the “ethicism” that often permeates the discourse on qualitative research, that is, the implicit idea that qualitative research is ethically good in itself, or at least ethically superior to the uncaring quantitative approaches. In order to throw light on the ethics of qualitative interviews in contemporary consumer societywhat has also been called “the interview society”we draw on microethics as well as macroethics, t…
The Church, the Factory and the Market
Shifting styles of doing psychology reflect assumptions from the culture at large. In the first section, three cultural metaphors for the science and profession of psychology are put forth—the church, the factory and the market. The picture they provide of psychology is then contrasted with the common histories of psychology as a succession of ideas. The metaphors are thereafter invoked in a discussion of psychology as a postmodern religious, ind…
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
The Social Construction of Validity
Qualitative Interviewing
The Psychoanalytic Interview as Qualitative Research
The psychoanalytical interview is one innovative form of knowledge production that has remained outside the discussions of scientific method in psychology. Major parts of the knowledge presented in current textbooks of psychology stem from psychoanalytical interviews, a method that does not exist in textbooks of psychological methods. Some postulates and paradoxes about psychoanalytical knowledge production are posited and aspects of the psychoan…
The 1,000-Page Question
This article takes issue with a question sometimes heard at workshops on interview research: "How shall I find a method to analyze the 1,000 pages of interview transcripts I have collected?" Rather than merely dismiss the question as one posed too late and leading in unproductive directions or attempt to answer the question directly, the article seeks to bring into the open the empiristic presuppositions about qualitative research implied by the …
What is anthropological research? An interview with Jean Lave by Steinar Kvale
Steinar Kvale has conducted an interview about anthropological research with Jean Lave. The interview focuses on Jean Lave's anthropological field work on apprenticeship among Liberian tailors. It pursues issues such as whether there is an anthropological “method”; the practicalities of doing field work, including the use of interviews; the role of interpretation and theory in empirical work in the field; and the issue of subjectivity in reportin…
The Social Construction of Validity
Validation of qualitative research is here discussed in relation to postmodern conceptions of knowledge. A modernist notion of true knowledge as a mirror of reality is replaced by a postmodern understanding of knowledge as a social construction. Of the common psychometric concepts of validity, predictive validity is related to a modernist correspon dence theory of truth, whereas construct validity may be extended to encompass a social constructio…
Ten standard Objections to Qualitative Research Interviews
Qualitative research has tended to evoke rather stereotyped objections from the mainstream of social science. Ten standardized responses to the stimulus "qualitative research interview" are discussed: it is not scientific, not objective, not trustworthy, nor reliable, not intersubjective, not a formalized method, not hypothesis testing, not quantitative, not generalizable, and not valid. With the objections to qualitative interviews highly predic…
Postmodern psychology
In art and philosophy, the current age is described as a postmodern age. Psychology is a project of modernity, coming into use as a term during the Age of Enlightenment and founded as a science in the late nineteenth century. If these two premises are correct — that is of psychology as a modern project and the current age as postmodern — the science of psychology may be out of touch with the current age. Then the two terms psychology and postmode…
Qualitative research
The Qualitative Research Interview
Dominance Through Interviews and Dialogues
The article discusses common conceptions of interviews as dialogues and the extensive application of qualitative research interviews in a consumer society. In the first part, an understanding of research interviews as warm, caring, and empowering dialogues is questioned by highlighting power asymmetries in interview relationships. Agonistic interview techniques, which play on contradictions and power differences, are outlined. The second part of …
The Social Construction of Validity
Validation of qualitative research is here discussed in relation to postmodern conceptions of knowledge. A modernist notion of true knowledge as a mirror of reality is replaced by a postmodern understanding of knowledge as a social construction. Of the common psychometric concepts of validity, predictive validity is related to a modernist correspon dence theory of truth, whereas construct validity may be extended to encompass a social constructio…
The Psychoanalytic Interview as Qualitative Research
The psychoanalytical interview is one innovative form of knowledge production that has remained outside the discussions of scientific method in psychology. Major parts of the knowledge presented in current textbooks of psychology stem from psychoanalytical interviews, a method that does not exist in textbooks of psychological methods. Some postulates and paradoxes about psychoanalytical knowledge production are posited and aspects of the psychoan…
The 1,000-Page Question
This article takes issue with a question sometimes heard at workshops on interview research: "How shall I find a method to analyze the 1,000 pages of interview transcripts I have collected?" Rather than merely dismiss the question as one posed too late and leading in unproductive directions or attempt to answer the question directly, the article seeks to bring into the open the empiristic presuppositions about qualitative research implied by the …
What is anthropological research? An interview with Jean Lave by Steinar Kvale
Steinar Kvale has conducted an interview about anthropological research with Jean Lave. The interview focuses on Jean Lave's anthropological field work on apprenticeship among Liberian tailors. It pursues issues such as whether there is an anthropological “method”; the practicalities of doing field work, including the use of interviews; the role of interpretation and theory in empirical work in the field; and the issue of subjectivity in reportin…
The Qualitative Research Interview
Qualitative research
Postmodern psychology
In art and philosophy, the current age is described as a postmodern age. Psychology is a project of modernity, coming into use as a term during the Age of Enlightenment and founded as a science in the late nineteenth century. If these two premises are correct — that is of psychology as a modern project and the current age as postmodern — the science of psychology may be out of touch with the current age. Then the two terms psychology and postmode…
Ten standard Objections to Qualitative Research Interviews
Qualitative research has tended to evoke rather stereotyped objections from the mainstream of social science. Ten standardized responses to the stimulus "qualitative research interview" are discussed: it is not scientific, not objective, not trustworthy, nor reliable, not intersubjective, not a formalized method, not hypothesis testing, not quantitative, not generalizable, and not valid. With the objections to qualitative interviews highly predic…
What is anthropological research? An interview with Jean Lave by Steinar Kvale
Steinar Kvale has conducted an interview about anthropological research with Jean Lave. The interview focuses on Jean Lave's anthropological field work on apprenticeship among Liberian tailors. It pursues issues such as whether there is an anthropological “method”; the practicalities of doing field work, including the use of interviews; the role of interpretation and theory in empirical work in the field; and the issue of subjectivity in reportin…
The Social Construction of Validity
Validation of qualitative research is here discussed in relation to postmodern conceptions of knowledge. A modernist notion of true knowledge as a mirror of reality is replaced by a postmodern understanding of knowledge as a social construction. Of the common psychometric concepts of validity, predictive validity is related to a modernist correspon dence theory of truth, whereas construct validity may be extended to encompass a social constructio…
The 1,000-Page Question
This article takes issue with a question sometimes heard at workshops on interview research: "How shall I find a method to analyze the 1,000 pages of interview transcripts I have collected?" Rather than merely dismiss the question as one posed too late and leading in unproductive directions or attempt to answer the question directly, the article seeks to bring into the open the empiristic presuppositions about qualitative research implied by the …
The Psychoanalytic Interview as Qualitative Research
The psychoanalytical interview is one innovative form of knowledge production that has remained outside the discussions of scientific method in psychology. Major parts of the knowledge presented in current textbooks of psychology stem from psychoanalytical interviews, a method that does not exist in textbooks of psychological methods. Some postulates and paradoxes about psychoanalytical knowledge production are posited and aspects of the psychoan…
The Social Construction of Validity
Qualitative Interviewing
The Church, the Factory and the Market
Shifting styles of doing psychology reflect assumptions from the culture at large. In the first section, three cultural metaphors for the science and profession of psychology are put forth—the church, the factory and the market. The picture they provide of psychology is then contrasted with the common histories of psychology as a succession of ideas. The metaphors are thereafter invoked in a discussion of psychology as a postmodern religious, ind…
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Confronting the Ethics of Qualitative Research
In this article we question the “ethicism” that often permeates the discourse on qualitative research, that is, the implicit idea that qualitative research is ethically good in itself, or at least ethically superior to the uncaring quantitative approaches. In order to throw light on the ethics of qualitative interviews in contemporary consumer societywhat has also been called “the interview society”we draw on microethics as well as macroethics, t…
Dominance Through Interviews and Dialogues
The article discusses common conceptions of interviews as dialogues and the extensive application of qualitative research interviews in a consumer society. In the first part, an understanding of research interviews as warm, caring, and empowering dialogues is questioned by highlighting power asymmetries in interview relationships. Agonistic interview techniques, which play on contradictions and power differences, are outlined. The second part of …
Doing Interviews
Qualitative Inquiry between Scientistic Evidentialism, Ethical Subjectivism and the Free Market
A critical analysis of the uses to which qualitative inquiry is put in marketing and management research is offered. The naive romantic belief that qualitative qualitative is inherently liberating and empowering is also criticized. The relationship between positivism, qualitative inquiry and the audit culture is analyzed
Memory and Dialectics
The metaphysical character of psychological memory research that originated with Ebbinghaus is pointed out. This research emphasizes isolated, static elements and quantitative relationships; it often implies the concept of a permanent memory. In contrast, a dialectical approach focuses on development of memory through contradictions which lead to qualitative changes. Both the process of remembering and research on memory take place in a sociohist…
Doing Interviews
Psychology (15 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Epistemology (11 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Qualitative research (9 obras) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (9 obras) · Social science (8 obras) · Anthropology (6 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Interview (3 obras)