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”

Bibliographic Data

ID11630282
AuthorsConnie A Buscha (0000-0001-8479-6787, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume45
Issue3
Pages561-571
Publication date2018-04-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArmed Forces & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0095-327X • E-ISSN: 1556-0848
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0095327x18767090
OpenAlexW2800250214
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited49

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