Doing Qualitative Research Differently: Free Association, Narrative and the Interview Method

By W. Hollway, T. Jefferson. 2000

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‘Prove me the bam!’: Victimization and agency in the lives of young women who commit violent offences (2005, background): “Rather, the discourses in which interviewees position themselves are the result of complex interaction, between unconscious desires, conscious rationality and available subject positions in a multiplicity of discourses (Hollway and Jefferson 2000).”
How Techniques of Neutralization Legitimize Norm- and Attitude-Inconsistent Consumer Behavior (2013, background): “Social interaction is of importance in this context, as an individual’s self-image is heavily influenced by other people’s perceptions (Holloway and Jefferson 2000).”
Woman Abuse: The Construction of Gender in Women and Men's Narratives of Violence (2004, background): “In the narrative interview, the agenda is flexible, open to change and only partially guided by the researcher's meaning frame (Hollway & Jefferson, 2000).”
Free Association in Psychology and the Grid Elaboration Method (2014, methodology): “In addition, the GEM has been influenced by the narrative interview method’s pursuit of complex pathways of emotive and experiential content that avoids the intellectualized responses often elicited by the semistructured interview’s how, when and why questions (Hollway & Jefferson, 2000).”
The impact of silo mentality on team identity: an organisational case study (2012, methodology): “…responded to the respondents’ ordering and phrasing – carefully listening in order to make follow-up comments using the respondents’ own words and phrases without offering interpretations, becoming an almost invisible facilitating catalyst to the respondents’ stories (Hollway & Jefferson, 2010).”
No Woman is Like a Man (in Academia): The Masculine Symbolic Order and the Unwanted Female Body (2013, methodology): “The psychosocial approach offered works with an assumption in which person’s relation to external reality is strongly influenced by unique biographical events, which are embedded in socially shared meanings, interactions and specific situations (Hollway & Jefferson, 2000, p. 104).”
Suppression, denial, sublimation: Defending against the initial pains of very long life sentences (2017, unknown): “The first was a detailed life history interview, which drew on the literature on narrative inquiry and life stories (e.g. Hollway and Jefferson, 2000; McAdams, 1988) and focused on pre-sentence life (e.g. familial relationships, life aspirations and experiences of education, authority, criminal…”
`If the Man Says you Must Sit, Then you Must Sit': The Relational Construction of Woman Abuse: Gender, Subjectivity and Violence (2008, background): “Further, in communities characterized by poverty and economic hardship, certain aspects of ‘respectability’ seem to become even more salient (Hollway and Jefferson, 2000).”
Serial Interviews (2018, methodology): “For research on fears about crime, Hollway and Jefferson (2000) developed a twointerview “free-association narrative” protocol (pp. 43–44).”
Criminal Careers, Desistance and Subjectivity (2004, background): “In both his work on masculinity and fear of crime (Hollway and Jefferson, 2000), Jefferson uses Klein’s notion that people depend upon psychic defence mechanisms to fend off feelings of anxiety to theorize an essential conflicted, but also, biographically unique ‘inner world’.”
Mothers' emotional care work in education and its moral imperative (2007, background): “…ou se S ar ah M ar ri ed M C 2 A tho m e O cc as io na l co m pu te r w or k G P V h ou se N ot es : G = g ir l, B = b oy , P A = p ub lic a ut ho ri ty , P V = p ri va te ly o w ne d, T r = T ra ve lle r, I m m = im m ig ra nt . it as a form of work (David et al., 1994; Hollway & Jefferson, 2001).”
What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research? (2005, background): “0192-3234/2005/0032-0004$10.00 221 Shadd Maruna nd Heith Copes stories such as these were interpreted somewhat literally by criminologists in the Chicago School as indications of the social processes that might lead to criminal behavior (see Hollway and Jefferson 2000).”
Studying Leadership Critically: A Psychosocial Lens on Leadership Identities (2010, methodology): “…an individual’s desires and anxieties (which may not be conscious or deliberate) which induce the specific positions they take up and the choice of accounts through which they depict themselves, as well as an exploration of some of the contradictions that this reveals (Hollway & Jefferson, 2000).”
The Process of Choosing What to Study: A Longitudinal Study of Upper Secondary Students' Identity Work When Choosing Higher Education (2014, background): “Like most other qualitative research methods, we do not claim that narratives give access to truth (Hollway & Jefferson, 2000).”
From Experience-Centred to Socioculturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative (2013, background): “Hollway and Jefferson (2000) generated two interviews per participant and (like Mishler) interviewed family and other networks.2 Notes on the interviews and their contexts will usually be made roughly concurrently.”