Frosh, Stephen (2007) Disintegrating qualitative research. Theory and Psychology 17 (5), pp. 635-653. ISSN 0959-3543.
Abstract
Book synopsis: This paper explores a tension in qualitative psychology between, on the one hand, a deconstructionist framework in which the human subject is understood as positioned in and through competing discourses and, on the other, a humanistic framework in which the integrity of the subject is taken to be both a starting- and end-point of analysis. This paper offers a critique of the tendency for qualitative research to seek to produce integrated `narratives' of experience and argues for the importance of maintaining the vision of a subject in fragments. It does so by taking up the notion of there being `things that can't be said' and suggesting that this refers to two distinct issues: the multiplicity of possible accounts of experience and the way language systematically excludes some 'abjected' material. It finishes with an illustrative analysis of an interview text.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2017 08:36 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:34 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/19187 |
Statistics
Additional statistics are available via IRStats2.
Archive Staff Only (login required)
