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Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, FCAHSFCAHS
Professor and DirectorProfessor and DirectorUBC School of NursingUBC School of NursingVancouver, BCVancouver, BC
Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, FCAHSFCAHS
Professor and DirectorProfessor and DirectorUBC School of NursingUBC School of NursingVancouver, BCVancouver, BC
Centre for Critical Qualitative Health ResearchLawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
University of Toronto
Sept 27, 2010
Centre for Critical Qualitative Health ResearchLawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
University of Toronto
Sept 27, 2010
Methodological Conventions in Transition: Shifting the Balance
between Theorizing and Application
Methodological Conventions in Transition: Shifting the Balance
between Theorizing and Application
LocationLocation
DisciplineDiscipline TrainingTraining Conceptual Conceptual
OrientationOrientation
NursingNursing
Methodological AffinitiesMethodological Affinities
PhenomenologyPhenomenology Philosophy/Philosophy/
PsychologyPsychology
EthnographyEthnography AnthropologyAnthropology
Grounded Grounded TheoryTheory
SociologySociology
Confronting ResistanceConfronting Resistance
• Health science Health science communitycommunity
• Social scientist Social scientist colleaguescolleagues
• Grant Grant reviewers/Journal reviewers/Journal editorseditors
• Paradigm thinkingParadigm thinking
MethodolatryMethodolatry
““slavish attachment and devotion to slavish attachment and devotion to method”method”
““a preoccupation with selecting anda preoccupation with selecting and
defending methods to the exclusion of thedefending methods to the exclusion of the
actual substance of the story being told.”actual substance of the story being told.”
Janesick, V. J. (1994). The dance of qualitative research Janesick, V. J. (1994). The dance of qualitative research design: Metaphor, methodolatry, and meaning. In N. K. design: Metaphor, methodolatry, and meaning. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative Handbook of qualitative research research (pp. 209–219). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.(pp. 209–219). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Rule-AlignmentRule-Alignment
The Entrée: Tabula RasaThe Entrée: Tabula Rasa
““Nothing is known…”Nothing is known…”
Researcher Role AbdicationResearcher Role Abdication
““The data speak for The data speak for themselves….”themselves….”
The Convenient ExitThe Convenient Exit
““Saturation Saturation was was achievedachieved…”…”
The Primacy of AbstractionThe Primacy of Abstraction
““The The overarching overarching metaphor….”metaphor….”
Narrative ImperativeNarrative Imperative
“ “My study My study participants participants speak their speak their truth…”truth…”
The Meaning of MeaningThe Meaning of Meaning
““My journey…..”My journey…..”
Truth Claim GrandiositiesTruth Claim Grandiosities
Lachrymal validity Lachrymal validity
Adulatory Adulatory credibilitycredibility
Theory Theory in Qualitative Health in Qualitative Health
ResearchResearch
Epistemological Epistemological DifferencesDifferences
Social ScienceSocial Science
Health ScienceHealth Science
What Theory Privileges What Theory Privileges
andand What What it it ObscurObscureses
The Fallout of Borrowed The Fallout of Borrowed Theoretical TraditionTheoretical Tradition
• Losing the Losing the disciplinary gripdisciplinary grip
• Manipulating Manipulating language signifierslanguage signifiers
• Discrediting the Discrediting the field with fuzziness field with fuzziness and irrelevanceand irrelevance
A Necessary but Not A Necessary but Not Sufficient Schism?Sufficient Schism?
Emancipation of Emancipation of Qualitative Health Qualitative Health
ResearchResearch
Applied Qualitative Applied Qualitative MethodologyMethodology
The Next The Next GenerationGeneration
Venturing Beyond Venturing Beyond DescriptionDescription
and Theorizingand Theorizing
Using Research to Bring a Using Research to Bring a Clinical Angle of Vision into Clinical Angle of Vision into the Evidence-Based Contextthe Evidence-Based Context
• Limits of conventional Limits of conventional sciencescience
• Experiential phenomena Experiential phenomena not amenable to not amenable to measurementmeasurement
• Patterns in experiencePatterns in experience• Commonalities and Commonalities and
variations variations • Critical reflection on Critical reflection on
contextcontext
Applied Qualitative Applied Qualitative Research as a Corrective to Research as a Corrective to
Big ScienceBig Science
IlluminatorIlluminator
Variance InterpreterVariance Interpreter
ChallengerChallenger
HumanizerHumanizer