The Appearance of Data

This paper explores conditions that allow data to appear, to come into being, in both conventional and more radical approaches in empirical social science research. Conventional qualitative inquiry that uses a positivist ontology—even when it claims to be interpretive—treats qualitative data, words,...

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Published inCultural studies, critical methodologies Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 223 - 227
Main Author St Pierre, Elizabeth Adams
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2013
Subjects
Empiricism
Experimental methods
Methodology
Ontology
Postmodernism
Qualitative Methods
Social Science Research
postmodern
empiricism
qualitative data
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Summary:This paper explores conditions that allow data to appear, to come into being, in both conventional and more radical approaches in empirical social science research. Conventional qualitative inquiry that uses a positivist ontology—even when it claims to be interpretive—treats qualitative data, words, as brute, existing independent of an interpretive frame, waiting to be “collected” by a human. However, a Deleuzo-Guattarian ontology that does not assume the subject/object binary might not think the concept data at all. The author resists recuperating data in the collapse of the old empiricism and is content to pause in the curious possibilities of a normative ontology that imagines a superior, affirmative, and experimental empiricism in which all concepts, including data, must be re-thought.
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ISSN:1532-7086
1552-356X
DOI:10.1177/1532708613487862