"Making meaning from the "yo no se

Agency and truth-telling in Salvadoran women

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2932279
AutoresKaren Tejada (0009-0004-4012-7863, University of Hartford, autor correspondente), Natalia Navas (0000-0002-2536-1430, Stony Brook University)
Ano2024
Volume41
Fascículo12
Páginas3665-3687
Data de publicação2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Social and Personal Relationships (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0265-4075 • E-ISSN: 1460-3608
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/02654075241270924
OpenAlexW4401517127
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas16

In this article, we provide lessons learned from studying the 'reticent' participants-those whose answers to our questions ranged from "I don't know" to "minding my own business" to an overpowering silence. These questions were posed to different Salvadoran women residing on Long Island, NY, and were based on two separate research projects-one examining diaspora politics and the other looking at community-policing relations. While combing through the interviews for patterns and themes for our respective research projects, we found combining our analyses helped us discover there is a lot to learn from the "yo no se" ("I don't know") responses. We argue this response is an entry point for us, as researchers, to strengthen our qualitative toolbox and, here, we provide tools for how to do this. We call on qualitative scholars to not ignore the silences or "I don't know" responses and instead see this as a journey to discover the 'aha' moments

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Point (geometry · Political science · Politics · Qualitative research · Silence · Social science · Sociology · Toolbox · Computer Science · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology