Bracketing in Research: A Typology

By R. Gearing. Qualitative Health Research, 2004

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Child removal as the gateway to further adversity: Birth mother accounts of the immediate and enduring collateral consequences of child removal (2020, methodology): “Although analysis was influenced by Husserl’s original indictment to return to experience (or the things themselves), we do not agree that the researcher can simply withhold prior knowledge or formulations when analysing data (Cohen and Omery, 1994; Gearing, 2004; Starks and Trinidad, 2007).”
Feeling the way: Notes toward a haptic phenomenology of distance running and scuba diving (2011, background): “For an interesting discussion of bracketing as a research technique, see Gearing (2004).”
Choose Your Method: A Comparison of Phenomenology, Discourse Analysis, and Grounded Theory (2007, background): “Gee (2005) described the analytic process as one of searching for textual evidence to show how language accomplishes the seven building tasks.”
A practical guide to reflexivity in qualitative research: AMEE Guide No. 149 (2022, background): “This neutralizing work is, for example, approached in transcendental phenomenology via “bracketing” (Gearing 2004; Neubauer et al. 2019).”
Bracketing in Phenomenology: Only Undertaken in the Data Collection and Analysis Process? (2013, methodology): “Although the concept of bracketing is well-suited in research that aims to explore human experience, the application and operation of bracketing remain vague and, often perplexing (Gearing, 2004).”