TY - JOUR

T1 - Dirty secrets and being ‘strange’

T2 - using ethnomethodology to fight familiarity

AU - Morriss, Lisa

N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Qualitative Research, 16, 5, 2016, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2016 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Qualitative Research page: http://qrj.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/

PY - 2016/9/1

Y1 - 2016/9/1

N2 - The paper is a discussion of my attempt to move beyond familiarity by using ethnomethodology – and the emotional impact of doing so; namely, the feeling of having a ‘dirty secret’. As a social work group member interviewing social workers, the process of fieldwork was all too familiar. However, during transcription and analysis, what I had considered to be ‘business as usual’ was revealed as something more complex. The paper describes how the ethnomethodological notions of being a member, the unique adequacy requirement of methods, and breaching worked to make the familiar strange and became key to my understanding.

AB - The paper is a discussion of my attempt to move beyond familiarity by using ethnomethodology – and the emotional impact of doing so; namely, the feeling of having a ‘dirty secret’. As a social work group member interviewing social workers, the process of fieldwork was all too familiar. However, during transcription and analysis, what I had considered to be ‘business as usual’ was revealed as something more complex. The paper describes how the ethnomethodological notions of being a member, the unique adequacy requirement of methods, and breaching worked to make the familiar strange and became key to my understanding.

KW - emotions in qualitative research

KW - ethnomethodology

KW - familiarity

KW - insider research

U2 - 10.1177/1468794115598194

DO - 10.1177/1468794115598194

M3 - Journal article

VL - 16

SP - 526

EP - 540

JO - Qualitative Research

JF - Qualitative Research

SN - 1468-7941

IS - 5

ER -