2024 article
"Collecting Loose Change:" Conceptual Clarifications on Bias, Subjectivity, Positionality, Reflexivity, & Autoethnography in Leisure Research
Johnson, C. W., & Rose, J. (2024, May 10). "Collecting Loose Change:" Conceptual Clarifications on Bias, Subjectivity, Positionality, Reflexivity, & Autoethnography in Leisure Research. LEISURE SCIENCES.
author keywords: Autoethnography; bias; paradigm; positionality; reflexivity; rigor; subjectivity
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities
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Source: Web Of Science
Added: May 28, 2024
With the rise of the acceptance, normalization, and increasing sophistication of qualitative research across the social sciences, there is a proliferation of paradigmatic approaches, methodologies, data generation methods, analytical techniques, and forms of representation. As qualitative methods continue to develop, expand, and hybridize, there is a need to conceptually clarify some of the "loose change" that has come with the rise of its legitimacy. In this essay, we build upon previous work advocating for a greater need for the use and conceptual clarification of trustworthiness in qualitative research to make an additional necessary call to encourage nuance when engaging with concepts that focus on the role of the self. We try to nuance the role(s) of articulating one's place through declarations of bias, subjectivity, and positionality and the mechanisms for managing and/or understanding one's place in the research vis-a-vis reflexivity as a process and/or autoethnography (methodology). In doing so, we call for the appropriate deployment of these techniques to align with the paradigmatic approach used in the research endeavor.