Language as Obstacle and as Data in Sociological Research

The SSRC's Committee on Sociolinguistics was committed to furthering attention to language, and linguistic difference, as an "unexploited kind of sociological data" in ethnographic and survey research. The committee convened a conference in 1968 to better understand the intersection of social and linguistic factors, summarized here by Allen D. Grimshaw. The group focused on four topics: the ethnography of asking questions; the meaning of words; the ways in which interviews themselves are "a part of the data" and "don't know" responses are revealing answers to questions; and improving scholars' training in framing questions and eliciting answers related to language and communication

Epistemology · Ethnography · Linguistics · Obstacle · Political science · Social science · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

• Narrating in protective order interviews

  Open Access•Trinch, Shonna L Trinch et al.•Language in Society•2002

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• Comprehensive discourse analysis

  Open Access•Allen D Grimshaw•Language in Society•1982

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• Experimenter bias and other possible biases in psychological research

  Open Access•J Michael Innes, Colin Fraser•European Journal of Social…•1971

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• The Genesis of Self in Early Childhood

  Open Access•Norman K Denzin•Sociological Quarterly•1972

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• Some Problematic Aspects of Communication in Cross Racial Research in the United States

  Allen D Grimshaw•Sociological Focus•1970

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• Research among Racial and Cultural Minorities

  Open Access•Darrel Montero, Daniela Montero•Journal of Social Issues•1977

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