The Participant as Ally and Essentialist Portraiture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385073 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Klaus G Witz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 246-268 |
| Publication date | 2006-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800405284365 |
| OpenAlex | W1981053964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article describes some of the essential features of a methodological approach to studying individuals' deeper motivations and experiences. The overall approach consists of "interviewing for feeling" with "the participant as ally and co-contemplator," "conceptually developed essentialist portraiture," and cross-case discussion, with an epistemology based on C. H. Cooley's principle of "sympathetic introspection." The heart of the article is an example of an analysis of excerpts from an interview with an English as a second language teacher regarding her interest in language. The analysis illustrates how to see and conceptualize the manner in which certain essential aspects in the participant's consciousness and overall orientation evolve in time. This example is then used to illustrate several concerns of portraiture and the epistemological presuppositions of the approach
Consciousness · Epistemology · Essentialism · Feeling · Interactionism · Interview · Introspection · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Participant observation · Presupposition · Sociology · Anthropology · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Sympathetic introspection as method and practice
Through Thick and Thin
"Feeling Higher Aspects in One's Life and Being Involved With Them "With One's (Whole) Self or 'I
The "Single Consciousness-and-'I'" of the Child at Different Ages
Making Music as Embodied Dialogue
Consciousness as a Characteristic of the Human Being as a Whole
Waheeda Remembering Her Cat Izzy
The Self," "I," and "a Single-Consciousness-and-'I
The Distance to Delight
On the Root of Feeling One Is Subjectively Understanding Another
A Single "Consciousness-and-'I'" From Childhood to Old Age
Understanding Another Person and Cooley's Principle of Sympathetic Introspection
Consciousness in the Study of Human Life and Experience
"Awakening to" an Aspect in the Other
| Citations per year | 0.95 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2019 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |