Dirty secrets and being ‘strange’:using ethnomethodology to fight familiarity

Morriss, Lisa (2016) Dirty secrets and being ‘strange’:using ethnomethodology to fight familiarity. Qualitative Research, 16 (5). pp. 526-540. ISSN 1468-7941

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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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Journal Article
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Qualitative Research
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The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Qualitative Research, 16, 5, 2016, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2016 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Qualitative Research page: http://qrj.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3301
Subjects:
?? EMOTIONS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCHETHNOMETHODOLOGYFAMILIARITYINSIDER RESEARCHHISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCESOCIAL SCIENCES (MISCELLANEOUS) ??
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78184
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Deposited On:
01 Mar 2016 10:34
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