Minds, Hearts, and Bodies, Not Data Points

A Response to Harris, McDonald, and Sparks’s “Sexual Harassment in the Military: Individual Experiences, Demographics, and Organizational Contexts”

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11630282
AutoresConnie A Buscha (0000-0001-8479-6787, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume45
Fascículo3
Páginas561-571
Data de publicação2018-04-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArmed Forces & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0095-327X • E-ISSN: 1556-0848
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0095327x18767090
OpenAlexW2800250214
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas49

Harris, McDonald, and Sparks’s recent quantitative research article, Sexual Harassment in the Military: Individual Experiences, Demographics, and Organizational Contexts, does not deliver its title’s promises. In 2018, social science research investigating, describing, and, ultimately, impacting human lives has advanced beyond overly simplistic figures of data points on x- and y-axes and rhetorical findings. Therefore, this response challenges numerous aspects of Harris, McDonald, and Sparks’s article. It identifies pragmatism as a valuable theoretical perspective from which to investigate the phenomenon of sexual harassment in the military. It further asserts that a qualitative methodology best provides rich, nuanced, and descriptive data from which researchers and scholars can identify measures to mitigate negative experiences for all service members regardless of gender

Criminology · Demographics · Economics · Harassment · Management · Political science · Sociology · Demography · Education and Military Integration · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology