The impact of working with disturbing secondary data: Reading suicide files in a coroner's office
The impact of working with disturbing secondary data: Reading suicide files in a coroner's office
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DOI：
10.1177/1049732307308945
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发表时间：
2008-06-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Langer, Susanne
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作者：
Fincham, Ben;Scourfield, Jonathan;Langer, Susanne
这篇文章讨论了阅读令人不安的次要数据（这里定义为研究人员以外的人收集的证据）对研究人员的影响。该案例研究是对自杀的定性社会学解剖，次要数据-书面文件和照片-都来自英国验尸官办公室的案件档案。以下人种学的研究设置和研究过程的细节，有在这些文件中的不同的二级数据源的讨论，特别是在研究人员的影响。在研究过程中对情绪进行了一些一般性的观察，并提出了应对情绪的潜在策略。作者将他们对阅读自杀的反应置于死亡和痛苦的社会处理的更广泛背景下，并考虑对数据的情绪反应是否有任何分析价值。
The article discusses the effects on the researcher of reading disturbing secondary data (defined here as evidence gathered by someone other than the researcher). The case study is a qualitative sociological autopsy of suicide, and the secondary data -written documents and photographs -are all from case files in a British coroner's office. Following ethnographic detail about the research setting and research process, there is discussion of the diverse secondary data sources in these files, particularly in relation to the impact on the researcher. Some general observations are made about emotion in the research process and potential strategies for responding to emotion. The authors locate their responses to reading about suicides within the broader context of the social processing of death and distress, and also consider whether emotional reactions to data have any analytical purchase.