‘You can’t stand on a corner and talk about it …’

Medicinal cannabis use, impression management and the analytical status of interviews

Bibliographic Data

ID17820087
AuthorsCraig Morris (0000-0001-9462-7821, University of Greenwich, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume11
Issue1
Publication date2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMethodological Innovations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2059-7991 • E-ISSN: 2059-7991
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/2059799118768422
OpenAlexW2801061446
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited33

In this article, I examine how four medicinal cannabis users used impression management during in-depth, qualitative interviews to attend to self-presentational concerns. I examine the rhetorical strategies and narratives articulated by the participants while also attending to the role that I played in co-construction as the interviewer. Later I discuss how, although the participants’ accounts are occasioned by the interviews, they can still provide significant insights into the social worlds of the participants beyond the interviews. While discussions about whether to treat interviews as topic, resource or both are not new, I argue that we can treat interviews as both topic and resource because impression management is a product of the individual’s habitus and it and the accounts it produces are part of their social world

Aesthetics · Art · Habitus · Impression management · Interview · Narrative · Presentational and representational acting · Qualitative research · Rhetorical question · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology

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