Are Children Interviewees Just Like Any Others

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5776985
AutoresAlice Simon (Université de la Polynésie française, Tahiti, France, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume146
Fascículo1
Páginas81-98
Data de publicação2020-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0759-1063 • E-ISSN: 2070-2779
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0759106320908223
OpenAlexW3016331808
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas21

Based on a study combining qualitative and quantitative methods on children's relation to politics, this article discusses the specificities of childhood as a research object in the social sciences. It raises two key issues. The first relates to the aptitudes required to participate in research (and thus the reliability of children's responses) and the second relates to the potential imbalance in the research relationship. The article demonstrates that the difficulties encountered depend on the social characteristics of the children and are not specific to this age group. They primarily result from the distance between the interviewer and the interviewee, in this case stemming from the age difference sometimes accentuated by social distance. Children can be considered social beings like any others, and their specificities can be usefully analysed using the traditional tools of the social sciences

Interview · Children's Rights and Participation · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Social and Educational Sciences