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Masculinity, age and rapport in qualitative research

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posted on 2017-03-24, 10:00 authored by Thomas Thurnell-ReadThomas Thurnell-Read
Purpose To reflect on the central role of gender and age in qualitative research practice, particularly in regard to how the gender and age of the researcher influence fieldwork interactions. Methodology/approach A reflection of three separate qualitative research undertakings, all of which made use of interviews and participant-observation fieldwork. Findings Gender and age intersections of both the researcher and research subjects influence fieldwork interactions both in terms of discursive and embodied interactions. Reflections on past research involve considering the relative changing subject position of the researcher in terms of masculinity, youth and social status. Rapport is established in the field through talk and interaction that can involve the performance of knowledge and gender. The researcher’s embodied feeling of ‘fitting in’ during fieldwork therefore draws on gender-, age- and ethnicity-specific privilege. Originality/value Unlike many acts of researcher reflexivity which reflect on a single research project, this chapter recalls experiences of fieldwork during three separate research undertakings. It adds to debates about methodological issues of doing research into men and masculinities by exploring how such is intersected by the age of both the researcher and research participants.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

Gender Identity and Research Relationships

Pages

23 - 41

Citation

THURNELL-READ, T., 2016. Masculinity, age and rapport in qualitative research. IN: Ward, M.R.M. (ed.) Gender Identity and Research Relationships, Bingley, West Yorks.: Emerald Publishing, pp. 23-41.

Publisher

Emerald

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2016

Notes

This book chapter was accepted for publication in the book "Gender Identity and Research Relationships" and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S1042-319220160000014014

ISBN

1786350262;9781786350268

Book series

Studies in Qualitative Methodology; Volume 14

Language

  • en