Whose data are they anyway? Practical, legal and ethical issues in archiving qualitative research data
Whose data are they anyway? Practical, legal and ethical issues in archiving qualitative research data
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DOI：
10.1177/0038038504039366
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发表时间：
2004-02-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Mauthner, NS
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作者：
Parry, O;Mauthner, NS
社会科学家越来越多地被鼓励从全球数据档案中查找、访问和分析数据。尽管绝大多数为研究界服务的数据档案馆专门处理定量数据设施的存储和提供，但也存在用于定性数据的存储和重用的设施。虽然定量研究界普遍认为归档相对没有问题，但定性社会科学研究人员对数据归档的反应不一。这种担忧很大程度上源于这样的假设：定性数据与定量数据相似，因此可以以相同的方式处理。然而，研究人员和受访者之间共同构建定性数据对于研究材料的所有权和控制具有重要影响。文章认为，定性数据的归档引发了一系列围绕保密性、受访者和研究人员匿名以及受访者同意的独特问题。文章研究了一些可能影响定性研究数据归档的实际法律和道德问题，并在此过程中反思了使用定性数据进行理论和实质性二次分析的可行性。文章还强调了借鉴口述历史等其他学科经验的重要性，具有悠久的归档传统，以便为从事定性研究的社会科学家制定适当的学科指导。
Social scientist are increasingly encouraged to locate, access and analyse data from data archives worldwide. Although the vast majority of data archives which service the research community deal exclusively with the storage and provision of quantitative data facilities also exist for the deposit and reuse of qualitative data. While archiving is generally understood as relatively unproblematic by the quantitative research community there has been a mixed reaction to data archiving among qualitative social science researchers. Much of this concern stems from the assumption that qualitative data are similar to and may therefore be treated in the same way as quantitative data. However, the joint construction of qualitative data between researcher and respondent has important implications for the ownership and control of research material. The article suggests that the archiving of qualitative data raises a distinct set of issues surrounding confidentiality, respondent and researcher anonymity and respondent consent it examines some of the practical legal and ethical issues which may affect the archiving of qualitative research data and in doing so it reflects on the viability of using qualitative data for theoretical and substantive secondary analysis it also highlights the importance of drawing on the experience of other disciplines such as oral history, with a longer tradition of archiving in order to develop appropriate disciplinary guidance for social scientists engaged in qualitative research.