Anticipating the Future of Autoethnography as Critical Social Research

2017 ◽  
pp. 168-194
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
Critical Social

Arts-Based Research: Merging Social Research and the Creative Arts

2020 ◽  
pp. 600-632
Author(s):  
Gioia Chilton ◽  
Patricia Leavy
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
The Future ◽  
Methodological Principles

Arts-based research (ABR) is a rapidly growing methodological genre. Arts-based research adapts the tenets of the creative arts in social research to make that research publicly accessible, evocative, and engaged. This chapter provides a retrospective and prospective overview of the field, including a review of some of the pioneers of arts-based research, methodological principles, and robust examples of arts-based research in different artistic genres. We include literary forms such as poetic inquiry and fiction, performative forms such as playbuilding, ethnodrama, ethnotheater and film, and visual forms such as photography, collage, art journaling, and mixed media. We note researches also use multiple art forms, and evolving and innovative forms of art. We provide suggestions for (contested) assessment criteria, such as utility, aesthetics, authenticity and valuing participatory and transformative approaches. The chapter closes with our thoughts regarding the future of the field, which includes ABR’s potential to improve public scholarship.

Qualitative Research - State of the Art

2002 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Flick
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Research ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
And Gender

The background of this article is the observation that the methodological discussions about qualitative research in German-speaking and Anglo-Saxon contexts are quite different. The article gives an overview of the state of the art of qualitative research in terms of its methodological development and its establishment in the broader field of social research. After some brief remarks about the history of the field, the major research perspectives and schools of qualitative research - grounded theory, ethnomethodology, narrative analysis, objective hermeneutics, life-world analysis, ethnography, cultural and gender studies - are outlined against the background of recent developments. The establishment of qualitative research is discussed with reference to the examples of the German and International Sociological Associations (DGS and ISA), to developments in the area of textbooks and handbooks, and to the founding of specialized journals. Methodological trends such as the move to visual and electronic data, triangulation of methods and the hybridization of qualitative procedures are discussed. In conclusion some perspectives are outlined which are expected to become more important in the future of qualitative research or which are seen as demands for further clarification. Beside the use of computers and further clarification on linking qualitative and quantitative research, and the limits and problems of such linkage, further suggestions concerning the ways of presenting appropriate and at the same time compulsory criteria for qualitative research are mentioned. Trends in building schools and developing research pragmatics, on the one hand, and a tendency towards elucidation and mystification of methodological procedures, on the other hand, are identified as tensional fields in methodological discussions in qualitative research. Finally a stronger internationalization in different directions and answering the question of indication are discussed as needs for the future of qualitative research.

Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research

2014 ◽  
pp. 164-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kum-Kum Bhavnani ◽  
Peter Chua ◽  
Dana Collins
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Critical Ethnography ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Situated Knowledges ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Critical Social

This chapter reflects on critical strategies in qualitative research. It examines the meanings and debates associated with the term “critical,” in particular, contrasting liberal and dialectical notions and practices in relation to social analysis and qualitative research. The chapter also explores how critical social research may be synonymous with critical ethnography in relation to issues of power, positionality, representation, and the production of situated knowledges. It uses Bhavnani’s framework to draw on Dana Collins’ research as a specific case to suggest how the notion of the “critical” relates to ethnographic research practices: ensuring feminist and queer accountability, resisting reinscription, and integrating lived experience.

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