Focus groups in feminist research: Power, interaction, and the co-construction of meaning
Focus groups in feminist research: Power, interaction, and the co-construction of meaning
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DOI：
10.1016/s0277-5395(97)00080-0
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发表时间：
1998-01-01
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1.4
通讯作者：
Wilkinson, S
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作者：
Wilkinson, S
尽管理论上强调理解情境中的人，但个人主义研究方法仍然主导着女权主义心理学以及更广泛的女权主义研究。我建议需要更多的社会定位方法，并认为小组访谈或焦点小组对于进行和发展女权主义研究具有特别的价值。简要概述了焦点小组的历史发展，并提供了它们在当代女权主义研究项目中使用的例子。我证明焦点小组的特殊好处包括： 解决女权主义者对权力和意义强加的道德担忧；生成高质量的交互式数据；并提供了关于人与人之间共同构建意义的理论进步的可能性。讨论并阐述了焦点小组理论和方法论在女权主义研究中未来发展的潜力，特别是参考特定社会背景下意义的动态协商。 (C) 1998 爱思唯尔科学有限公司。
Despite a theoretical emphasis on understanding the person-in-context, individualistic research methods have dominated feminist psychology, and feminist research more generally. I suggest the need for more socially situated methods, and argue that group interviews, or focus groups, are of particular value in conducting, and developing, feminist research. The historical development of focus groups is briefly outlined and examples provided of their use in contemporary feminist research projects. I demonstrate that the particular benefits of focus groups include: addressing feminist ethical concerns about power and the imposition of meaning; generating high quality, interactive data; and offering the possibility of theoretical advances regarding the co-construction of meaning between people. The potential for future development of focus group theory and methodology in feminist research is argued, and illustrated, in particular, with reference to the dynamic negotiation of meaning in specific social contexts. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd.