Morriss2016
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| 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 |
| URL | Link |
| 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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