I probably could use some, but I’m just getting back into reflective writing. As I’ve said before, I have some history with confessional blogging. I suppose I can share what I learned there: I write reflexively fairly naturally, because I’m an introspective processor who needs an external audience (even if that audience is a pen […]
This week, we took this Internet quiz for an approximation of our research paradigms. My result, above, filled me with dread — not because Foucault’s work isn’t important and influential, not because I don’t share his eagerness to unpack everything with an eye toward questioning power and custom — but because his prose is just […]
I. I noticed last week while reviewing Daly, Chapter 1, how much qualitative research reminds me of the Tao Te Ching, the closest thing I have to a holy book. I grew up in a pretty apathistic home; I thought I was a Christian just because everyone else was until I was about 14, then […]
One of the biases that I should, perhaps, acknowledge in much of my work ahead is that I’m something of a post-positivist and certainly a post-structuralist. I think there is value in approaching questions as if there exist concrete, permanent answers, but I also believe the whole academic apparatus for identifying and defending these answers […]
It’s amazing how quickly online assignments can get away from you. I’m struggling to keep up with the tasks and details of my Qualitative class because they are strewn across multiple interfaces within Instructure. I often get flack for my numerous browser tabs, but in this class navigating them is an asset! Too bad my […]
My Reflexive Researcher Stance My name was not always G.J. Hodson. In another phase (I somewhat flippantly call these my “past lives”), I blogged quite extensively. Mostly about becoming. Even before I knew what I was becoming. What was I becoming? G.J., I guess. G.J. came to graduate school to become a researcher in order […]
I’ve been scrambling to learn more qualitative approaches to research. This is not only important for my mixed methods Sociology thesis, it is also a foothold into more qualitative work in the future. My instincts tell me that if I become employed as a researcher with only quantitative qualifications, no further opportunities will emerge without […]
Theories of Care 