Beyond Bias? The Promise and Limits of Q Method in Human Geography
Beyond Bias? The Promise and Limits of Q Method in Human Geography
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超越偏见？
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2000
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R. Krueger
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P. Robbins;R. Krueger
Q法是一种引出、评估和比较人类主观性的定量技术。我们在此介绍该方法并评估其优点和缺点，特别是在将其纳入人文地理学研究方面。我们得出的结论是，Q 方法特别适合以反本质主义的主体概念以及对社会和自然现实的建构主义解释为基础的人文地理学。 Q 方法的创始人声称该程序可以拉近并消除研究人员的偏见，但事实证明这是没有根据的，在认识论上也很幼稚。尽管如此，Q 方法是一种严格的、解释性的和迭代的技术，它允许研究人员放弃对与被研究者关系的控制垄断，从而有助于更加民主的研究设计和实施。
Q method is a quantitative technique for eliciting, evaluating, and comparing human subjectivity. We introduce the method here and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses, especially with regards to its incorporation into human geographic research. We conclude that Q method is particularly appropriate for human geographies informed by anti-essentialist notions of the subject and constructivist accounts of social and natural reality. Claims by the founders of Q method that hold that the procedure distances and removes the bias of the researcher are shown to be unfounded and epistemologically naïve. Nevertheless, Q method is a rigorous, hermeneutic, and iterative technique that allows the researcher to surrender the monopoly of control in their relationship with the researched and so contribute to more democratic research design and implementation.