There is nothing new about researchers thinking about their own bias on the basis of biography, or more broadly, insider/outsider status. With the growth of the interpretivist frameworks across the social sciences and cultural anthropology (notably from the postwar symbolic interactionsists associated woth the chicargo school), there was a strong acknowledgement that all researchers into human activities bought their own baggage to the research table. The first wave of interpretivsm is often called post positivism since the problem set was that of minimising subjectivity, of setting aside ones own baggage(bracketing in phenomenologgical perspectives) rather than forgoing the idea of objectivity.
Rolfe(2006: 307) has argued that early interpretivists shared with positivism the notion that there is a truth 'out there' to be got at.
For instance he writes that that faith in the move to ask an independent researcher to check his findings rests on the notions that 'catagories' or 'essences' are somehow already lodged in the datas, waiting for the objective researcher.
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Researchers should not strive to be wholly detached from their research.
To evoke an authoritative voice , the author must speak in the third person, and be physically, psychologically, and ideologically absent from the text. That lends the text an aura of omnisience. The all-knowling intepretive voice speaks from a sistant, privaliged vantage point in a detached measured tone. Foley 1998 110
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In qualitative research the worlds of interaction, practise and activity have been privaliged over the corporeal world, as researchers attemt to investigate the complex interrelationships of human life and contibute to human understanmding of these phenomena.
Rolfe(2006: 307) has argued that early interpretivists shared with positivism the notion that there is a truth 'out there' to be got at.
For instance he writes that that faith in the move to ask an independent researcher to check his findings rests on the notions that 'catagories' or 'essences' are somehow already lodged in the datas, waiting for the objective researcher.
p9
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Researchers should not strive to be wholly detached from their research.
To evoke an authoritative voice , the author must speak in the third person, and be physically, psychologically, and ideologically absent from the text. That lends the text an aura of omnisience. The all-knowling intepretive voice speaks from a sistant, privaliged vantage point in a detached measured tone. Foley 1998 110
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In qualitative research the worlds of interaction, practise and activity have been privaliged over the corporeal world, as researchers attemt to investigate the complex interrelationships of human life and contibute to human understanmding of these phenomena.
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