{"title":"Relationships, Trust and Accountability, and Critical Reflexivity: Developing Quality Data with the \"Hard to Reach\".","authors":"Anna Kopec, Alison Smith, Genevieve Fuji Johnson","doi":"10.1093/poq/nfaf032","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding the realities of members of marginalized communities is central to the advancement of social and behavioral sciences. We argue that the development of data accurately representing the perspectives and experiences of such communities is fundamentally contingent on relationships of trust and accountability, and on researcher critical reflexivity. We showcase our methodology in three vignettes based on how we conduct research with communities that are \"hard to reach\" due to their societal marginalization. These vignettes include our reflections on the quality of data as a function of relationships, trust, accountability, and critical reflexivity. Our stories from the field highlight the importance of relational research with communities experiencing marginalization.</p>","PeriodicalId":51359,"journal":{"name":"Public Opinion Quarterly","volume":"89 SI","pages":"565-589"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12411916/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Public Opinion Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfaf032","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Understanding the realities of members of marginalized communities is central to the advancement of social and behavioral sciences. We argue that the development of data accurately representing the perspectives and experiences of such communities is fundamentally contingent on relationships of trust and accountability, and on researcher critical reflexivity. We showcase our methodology in three vignettes based on how we conduct research with communities that are "hard to reach" due to their societal marginalization. These vignettes include our reflections on the quality of data as a function of relationships, trust, accountability, and critical reflexivity. Our stories from the field highlight the importance of relational research with communities experiencing marginalization.
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Published since 1937, Public Opinion Quarterly is among the most frequently cited journals of its kind. Such interdisciplinary leadership benefits academicians and all social science researchers by providing a trusted source for a wide range of high quality research. POQ selectively publishes important theoretical contributions to opinion and communication research, analyses of current public opinion, and investigations of methodological issues involved in survey validity—including questionnaire construction, interviewing and interviewers, sampling strategy, and mode of administration. The theoretical and methodological advances detailed in pages of POQ ensure its importance as a research resource.
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