Triangulating Perspectives

Autor(en)
Susanne Vogl, Eva-Maria Schmidt, Ulrike Zartler
Abstrakt

Multiple perspective interviews (MPIs) involve interviewing members of a social group separately and triangulating their accounts during analysis to gain insights into the functioning of such groups (e.g. families). So far, there has been little engagement with the specific challenges of MPI research during the analysis, particularly with dissonant data. To illustrate the importance of this aspect, we draw on the triangulation metaphor and related epistemological and ontological perspectives, which determine analytic choices and thus yield different forms of knowledge. We show how triangulating perspectives can extend individual-level results, but also how researchers should go beyond a descriptive level of analysis for convergent and dissonant accounts to realize the potential of MPIs. Convergence should not be assumed too hastily, yet, there might be dissonance that cannot be resolved. (Self-)reflection on epistemological views, interpretive practice, and the purpose of MPI as well as their interrelation can increase the strengths of MPI approaches

Organisation(en)
Institut für Bildungswissenschaft, Institut für Soziologie, Projekt: Familienforschung in Österreich
Journal
International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Band
22
Seiten
611-624
Anzahl der Seiten
14
ISSN
1364-5579
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2019.1630901
Publikationsdatum
06-2019
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
504011 Familienforschung, 504007 Empirische Sozialforschung
Schlagwörter
Link zum Portal
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