Doing Social Work Research by Louise Hardwick Aidan Worsley

Author:Louise Hardwick, Aidan Worsley [Louise Hardwick, Aidan Worsley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847879134
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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2010-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

What all these difficult aspects of interviewing have in common is the fact they are at once structural issues for society and also completely personal aspects of our own individual world, perceptions, judgements, prejudices and, most fundamentally, our identity. These types of questions, often swiftly driven past as ‘basic socio-demographic data’, actually encapsulate society’s shorthand for defining us – and whilst as individuals we might agree or disagree with the notion, we are all aware of its truth. How we choose to present ourselves in interviews or when answering a questionnaire is beyond researchers’ control, whether today we wish to declare ourselves as Jedi Knights or exercise a choice not to share our transgendered status.

What perhaps exacerbates this problem of self presentation is the fact that we are, as practitioner researchers, most likely engaged in ‘volatile’ and ‘fleeting’ relationships with those we are researching. Researchers could be characterised as sweeping into peoples lives to investigate something that interests them rather than those they research and, of course, this project is far more likely to be in the researcher’s interests than those of the researched. What is in it for respondents after all? They may simply choose to construct fabrications about themselves for their own amusement, or indeed because they are just not committed to your research endeavour (Denzin, 1970).

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