Sally Thorne, Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, FCAHS RN, PhD, FCAHS Professor and Director Professor and Director UBC School of Nursing UBC School of Nursing Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing University of Toronto Sept 27, 2010 Methodological Conventions in Transition: Shifting the Balance between Theorizing and Application
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• 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
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