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Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life

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Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life

Svend Brinkmann

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First published 2012

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To know
That which before us lies in daily life
Is the prime wisdom

John Milton, Paradise Lost

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About the author

Svend Brinkmann is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Communication and Psychology at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, where he serves as director of the Center for Qualitative Studies (with Lene Tanggaard). His research is particularly concerned with philosophical, moral, and methodological issues in psychology and other human and social sciences. He is the editor of Qualitative Studies and author and co-author of numerous articles and books, including InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing (in its second edition).

Acknowledgements

This book began as a coincidence. I was reviewing a book proposal for Sage, and at the bottom of the review form was a section in which to put down any ideas of my own for possible book projects. I thought about this for a few minutes, and then it occurred to me that I would like to write a book on how to do small-scale research based on the researchers own life and experiences. I dont know why this struck me at that particular moment, but, as I developed the idea further, it became clear to me that this is how I do much of my own work. Although I have been working like this for some years, I have yet to find a book that tells me that this is a legitimate way of working or one that instructs me in how to do it well. As a consequence, I decided to write the book myself, and the result can be found on the following pages.

I work like this for two reasons, I believe, one practical and the other more factual, one might say. Firstly, and practically, I work like this because it represents a possible (and rather enjoyable) way to do research in an otherwise hectic academic life, and, secondly, because I believe that interpretative qualitative research should build on questions and problems that are of genuine interest to the researcher herself. If our human and social science research projects are not existentially important to ourselves, there is a real risk that they will not be important to anyone. On the other hand, if they are urgent and important from our own everyday life perspective, there is at least a chance that they will be so from the perspectives of others too.

I wish to thank the people at Sage for getting back to me about this project and for supporting me as I went on to write the book. I thank in particular Katie Metzler for her encouragement and proficient editorship, and also Anna Horvai and Ian Antcliff for facilitating a smooth process. I am grateful to my colleague Lene Tanggaard for having read and commented on large parts of the manuscript and to Jacob Klitmller for reading the whole thing at a late stage in the process and for providing me with very helpful comments. Portions of the book have been published previously in articles and book chapters, and I thank the various editors and reviewers for their comments. I am particularly grateful for comments and criticism from Jaan Valsiner, Joshua Clegg and Norman Denzin. I owe is based.

This book contains materials from the following manuscripts that have previously been published:

Brinkmann, S. (2007). Could interviews be epistemic? An alternative to qualitative opinion-polling. Qualitative Inquiry, 13(8): 11161138.

Brinkmann, S. (2009). Literature as qualitative inquiry: The novelist as researcher. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(8): 13761394.

Brinkmann, S. (2010). Guilt in a fluid culture: A view from positioning theory. Culture & Psychology, 16(2): 253266.

Brinkmann, S. (in press). The practice of self observation in the phenomenological traditions. In J.W. Clegg (Ed.), Self Observation in the Social Sciences. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Brinkmann, S. & Kvale, S. (2008). Ethics in qualitative psychological research. In C. Willig & W. Stainton-Rogers (Eds),

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