This article discusses the current confusion surrounding qualitative methods in demographic and health research that prevails amongst young researchers in Arab countries. It presents the author’s reflections on years of train- ing researchers from the region in qualitative methods and the frustrations of differentiating between qualitative methods, qualitative methodology and anthropology in the midst of rising demands to produce a critical Arab social science.
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The Frustrations and Future of Teaching Qualitative Methods to Researchers in the Arab World
Hania Sholkamy
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2006
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- 20–34 (15 total)
Introduction
Anthropological Knowledge and Practice in Global Health
Rodney Reynolds and Isabelle L. Lange
kinds of potentially marginalising practices described above (as well as others not explicitly recounted here, such as reducing a set of fuller qualitative methods to only verbal and textual analysis). Even when offering careful and valuable accounts of
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–11 (11 total)
Ebola and Accusation
Gender and Stigma in Sierra Leone’s Ebola Response
Olive Melissa Minor
Sierra Leone’s WaSH team. We used multiple qualitative methods to triangulate data. Data collection involved focus-group discussions (FGDs), in-depth interviews, participant observation and site visits to Peripheral Health Units (PHUs). 2 Interviews
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 25–35 (11 total)
Educational Persistence in the Face of Violence
Narratives of Resilient Latino Male Youth
Adrian H. Huerta
Latino boys and young men often carry the debt of violence into different spaces. This invisible trauma manifests into disruptive behaviors in schools. It is well documented that violence in urban communities and schools has received significant attention from researchers, but little attention has been paid to Latino male youth as individuals and the various forms of violence they have experienced, and how that impacts educational persistence. This qualitative study focuses on 26 Latino male middle and high school students who are attending two continuation schools to understand the types of violence they have experienced and their educational aspirations after high school.
In Boyhood Studies
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- Research Article
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- 94–113 (19 total)
The Role of the Reflexive Self in Mailer's Protests
Jon Dean
In The Armies of the Night (1968) and Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968/2008) Norman Mailer details the exploits of the anti-Vietnam war protestors and his role in the protests. With an ethnographer’s eye for detail and a novelist’s eye for imagery, he constructs a picture of youthful fear and exuberance, a totalitarian reaction to protest, and documents an America which he realises is slowing eating itself. In these nonfi ction novels, he places himself at the centre of events, interpreting the data through his own frazzled, drink-fuelled, mischievous self. This article utilises Pierre Bourdieu’s methodological framework of refl exive sociology to both critically analyse Mailer as an ethnographer and qualitative researcher and ask whether inquiry into social protest can be adequately conducted through the autobiographical gaze of a novelist. It is argued that by using such literary resources and techniques, we can, in the spirit of C. Wright Mills, move to a more public sociology where literary techniques are valued, rather than dismissed as unscientific.
Qualitative Research Synthesis
How the Whole Can Be Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
Hanne Riese, Benedicte Carlsen, and Claire Glenton
The rise of the knowledge society has led to an increase in the amount of research that is produced and an increased demand from decision makers for summaries of this research. As a result, research syntheses have become increasingly important in applied research, especially within the health sciences. However, this methodology has not been adopted with the same enthusiasm in the field of anthropology. In this article, we describe the main principles of this approach and the history of its development and discuss whether qualitative research synthesis can be seen as compatible with (the goal of) anthropological methodology. Finally, we argue for a greater adoption of research synthesis within applied anthropology and call for a greater engagement from anthropologists in the further development of this methodology.
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2014
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- Research Article
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- 23–30 (7 total)
‘Anthropological Enough?’
Reflections on Methodology, Challenges of Doing Fieldwork ‘At Home’ and Building a More Inclusive Discipline
Ryan I. Logan, Laura Kihlström, and Kanan Mehta
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In this article, we discuss how fieldwork completed ‘at home’ in the USA presented challenges and resulted in our work being considered not ‘anthropological enough’. Centring our article around our individual projects for which primary data collection was completed prior to COVID-19, we explore a variety of issues related to methodology and structural constraints we experienced as graduate students in anthropology and now as junior scholars. Drawing on our experiences conducting research in the USA, we posit how anthropology might move forward in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and foster a more inclusive discipline. By challenging the notion of ‘anthropological enough’, we reimagine ways of conducting anthropology that are better suited for increasingly uncertain times, which call for collaborations rooted in social justice.
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2023
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- Research Article
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- 26–34 (9 total)
Selective Flexibility
A Qualitative Study of Diverse Gay Masculinities
Jarrod Call
Male Same-Sex Relationships .” Traumatology 17 ( 2 ): 68 – 74 . Padgett , Deborah K. 2016 . Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research . SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services: vol. 36 . Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications . Pederson
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Sep 2023
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- Research Article
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- 26–46 (21 total)
Mother Courage and the Future of War
Paul E. Farmer
What are the true costs of war? If anthropologists are to help answer this question, it will be because we can link personal narratives (and qualitative methods) to historically deep and geographically broad analyses of conflict. This essay seeks to explore the costs of armed conflict—the economic, affective, and general social costs of war—by examining the experience of a single family, two generations of it, caught in the midst of two conflicts. Their experience links the United States to Haiti, Cuba, and Iraq. As limited as conclusions might be, in reflecting on these narratives, we might still conclude that the true costs of war are rarely, if ever, gauged.
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Jun 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 165–184 (20 total)
The Determination of Educational Policy
Shas, Politics, and Religion
Anat Feldman
abstract
This article examines the reasons why countries change their educational policies, using Israel as a case study. Employing quantitative and qualitative methods, I show that political constraints can cause governments to modify their educational policies without professional pedagogical discourse. Using the example of the ultra-Orthodox ethnic political party Shas, I demonstrate how—thanks to the political power that the party had gained, as well as the weakening of nationalist values—it succeeded in establishing a network of party schools with state funding despite the fact that some of these schools teach neither the state’s values nor the core curriculum determined by the Ministry of Education.
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 89–109 (21 total)