I am very confused because it is not very clear to me whether there is a dance between reflexivity and bracketing as Finaly(2008) suggests.Anyone with that eBook please send it to me?
Dora, I don't have Finaly (2008) and the references on my bookshelves are probably a bit out of date (e.g. Ahern 1999) but still provide a useful foundation for understanding. In my view, the two are sequential. Given that your research topic has probably been derived from your own interest, reflexivity is almost bound to be built in - as soon as you have data to analyse, you will reflect on it in light of personal experience. You can never (I believe) be totally objective or unbiased because your own experience will colour your perceptions, but you then need to bracket off your own instinctive responses when you are interpreting the data further so that your findings are - as far as possible - based on your respondents' views, not your own. You can compare/contrast them as you wind up towards conclusion. I offer this based on my own experience and others might disagree - that's the nature of qualitative research! But that, to me, is what makes it vibrant and challenging.
Thank you Sue for the clarification.I suppose I was getting the reflexive writing and journaling confused with putting my preconceptions into brackets.Thank you very much.
Glad it was of some use, Dora. I should have pointed out that the more bracketing off you do, the more it would lean towards Husserl's phenomenology, i.e. becoming more objective, as opposed to Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology (multiple truths rather than a universal truth) although I stand by what i wrote before, in that you can never totally remove yourself from the interpretation. The debate continues!
Sue hi, this is good because I have argued for both actions in my thesis- reflexive writing and bracketing . I was not so sure about the proportions so your answer is on point. For analysis I am using IPA which is a Heidegger method? Do you have references/articles that I can use? This debate is going to get very interesting!!
I haven't used IPA directly, Dora, because I wasn't working in a clinical or therapeutic setting. I referred only to Smith's original writing because I had to read it in order to show that it was not appropriate for my thesis. Yes, Heidegger is one of the influences in it; also Merleau-Ponty.
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