Morriss2016

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Morriss2016
BibType ARTICLE
Key Morriss2016
Author(s) Lisa Morriss
Title Dirty secrets and being ‘strange’: using ethnomethodology to move beyond familiarity
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Tag(s) EMCA, emotions in qualitative research, ethnomethodology, familiarity, insider research
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Year 2016
Language English
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Journal Qualitative Research
Volume 16
Number 5
Pages 526–540
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DOI 10.1177/1468794115598194
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Abstract

The paper is a discussion of my attempt to move beyond familiarity by using ethnomethodology – and the emotional impact of doing so; namely, the feeling of having a ‘dirty secret’. As a social work group member interviewing social workers, the process of fieldwork was all too familiar. However, during transcription and analysis, what I had considered to be ‘business as usual’ was revealed as something more complex. The paper describes how the ethnomethodological notions of being a member, the unique adequacy requirement of methods, and breaching worked to make the familiar strange and became key to my understanding.

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