Subjects interviewing subjects. A new interdisciplinary methodology for human experience research
Polis December 26, 2024 DOI: 10.32735/s0718-6568/2024-n69-3730 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Qualitative Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Interview Feeling Filter signal processing Qualitative research Hegemony Face sociological concept Applied psychology Engineering ethics |
| Key points | Argues that microphenomenology offers a way to overcome the ignored challenge of subjectivity in interview-based qualitative research. |
Abstract
If nowadays there is enough evidence to sustain that subjective experience escapes from us and we filter the reality, why do we social scientists continue asking the same questions?, what do we get in response?, and how do we analyze the responses obtained? These methodological questions are the white elephant in the hegemonic room of our qualitative method per excellence, the interview; where despite having that feeling that there is something in the middle of the room which is so big and uncomfortable, that perhaps we prefer to continue ignoring it. But for those of us who seek to do different and applicable science which generates real solutions to the complex human problems of coexistence, microphenomenology emerges as an innovative view to face the challenge of subjectivitycof the interviewed and of the researchers.