How Getting Close to Your Subjects Makes Qualitative Data Better

By J. D. Toma. 2000

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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• Musical narratives: A study of a young child’s identity work in and through music-making (2011, background): “…viewed as a weakness in narrative research approaches as qualitative researchers in general maintain that an objective stance borders on the ‘impossible’ (Toma, 2000, p. 177) as the researcher is a ‘central and omnipresent figure’ (Mantzoukas, 2004, p. 1002) in the generation and analysis of data.”