In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work

IF 3.2 1区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Qualitative Research Pub Date : 2023-07-05 DOI:10.1177/14687941231186024

Jante Schmidt, S. van der Weele, Melissa Sebrechts

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Abstract

In this article, we develop a new avenue for understanding the informative value of researchers’ emotions for qualitative research by deepening our understanding of awkwardness in the field. With this, we aim to develop Arlie Hochschild's notion of ‘emotion work’ further as a methodological tool. Awkwardness concerns discrepancies in researchers’ emotions that require and reveal emotion work. The argument is that reflecting on emotion work performed by the researcher in awkward situations is a way to gain insight into what we call ‘relational concepts’: concepts designating phenomena that reside and/or emerge in relationships between at least two persons. We show what this looks like in practice by presenting cases of awkwardness from three qualitative research projects revolving around such relational concepts, namely, recognition, dependency and dignity.

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赞扬该领域的尴尬：通过反思研究人员的情感工作来增加我们对关系概念的理解

在这篇文章中，我们通过加深对该领域尴尬的理解，为理解研究人员情绪对定性研究的信息价值开辟了一条新的途径。有了这一点，我们的目标是进一步发展Arlie Hochschild的“情感工作”概念，将其作为一种方法论工具。尴尬涉及研究人员情绪的差异，这需要并揭示情绪工作。争论的焦点是，反思研究人员在尴尬情况下所做的情绪工作，是深入了解我们所说的“关系概念”的一种方式：这些概念指定了存在和/或出现在至少两个人之间的关系中的现象。我们通过展示三个定性研究项目中围绕这些关系概念（即认可、依赖和尊严）的尴尬案例，展示了这在实践中的样子。

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Qualitative Research Multiple-

CiteScore

8.10

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： Qualitative Research is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles on the methodological diversity and multi-disciplinary focus of qualitative research within the social sciences. Research based on qualitative methods, and methodological commentary on such research, have expanded exponentially in the past decades. This is the case across a number of disciplines including sociology, social anthropology, health and nursing, education, cultural studies, human geography, social and discursive psychology, and discourse studies.