lecture 15

Question 1

This lecture is about the process of _____ ___ illustrated through two separate theme

Answer 1

narrative
analysis,

Question 2

participant goals

Answer 2

from most to least
mental health, relationship, career, physical health , no goal

Question 3

A remarkable proportion of self-help readers in our
study reported . how many %

Answer 3

learning to think more positively
about themselves, their lives, and the issues they
were attempting to address.
60%

Question 4

positive thinking messages

Answer 4

1. Be confident, optimistic and positive (22);
2. Be thankful for what you have (8);
3. See yourself as worthy (9);
4. Recognize that you are not alone (9);
5. Stop thinking negatively (18); and
6. Change your interpretation of life (14).

Question 5

goals often differ from the actual outcome but it is still positive

Question 6

stop thinking negativity goals is

Answer 6

logical

Question 7

—-x: hidden curriculum—–The prevalence of positive thinking themes in the
narratives of our interviewees suggests that self-help
texts, irrespective of authors’ intentions or readers’
motivations,

Answer 7

encourage readers to think about
themselves and their lives in more comforting ways.

Question 8

Self-help readers become ____ ____ in the
sense that they learn to think about themselves,
their lives, their relationships, and their worlds, in
more comforting and reassuring ways.

Answer 8

compliant subjects

Question 9

We argue that rather than work through the
internalization of specific (neo-liberal, patriarchal,
etc.) messages from self-help texts, social
reproduction in self-help reading works through a ____ _____

Answer 9

through which the process of
reading inculcates a more positive outlook amongst
those who read.

Question 10

We did not start the SHLRP with the intention of
studying the

Answer 10

performance of masculinity.

Question 11

Inductive discovery of the theme of masculinity

Answer 11

Along with coding, the early stages of data analysis
involved reading and re-reading (many times) the
text within the database.
 Both by cases (to understand the experiences and
claims of individual interviewees) and by variables
(to see how responses to questions, or attributes on
variables, were distributed).

Question 12

Deductive construction of claims about masculinity

Answer 12

Once patterns were perceived in the data, we
(guided by theoretical frameworks) would create
concepts and categories, and then read the database
again deductively – looking to see if the data fit our
concepts and categories.

Question 13

For each of the 45 men we interviewed, we read the
entire transcript several times and coded that
respondent as having enacted one of three major

Answer 13

narratives of masculinity

Question 14

Men read self-help books without necessarily

Answer 14

embracing the social role of the self-help reader- role-distancing

Question 15

29% of men, and 13% of women we interviewed
expressed some ____ form of distancing talk

Answer 15

explicit

Question 16

For men, the process of self-help reading appears to
carry

Answer 16

stigma

Question 17

Men’s narratives came in three forms.

Answer 17

• Normative masculinity: the resourceful man getting
  ahead in life.
   Recuperative masculinity: the wounded man getting
  back on his feet.
   Other masculinities: from reading like a woman to
  learning to be a man.

Question 18

two reasons that represent 90% of the male intevriews

Answer 18

While “getting ahead” and “getting back on one’s
feet” represented key concerns for nearly 90% of our
male interviewees, other types of narratives also
emerged.

Question 19

Ryan was one of only two men we interviewed who
spoke with us about reading a self-help book
pertaining to intimate relationships; he also was
unique amongst men in describing how a key
outcome of his reading was reaching out to friends
for support: “The first thing I did was reach out to
some friends, it broke the lonely feeling and I found
out I had a ton more support than I thought I did.
This book was the reason I did that.”
- hegemonic masculinity
- realized he was not performing as a male

Question 20

reg was the only one who showed masculinity in none hegemonic way

Question 21

Through qualitative analysis, we learned something
about

Answer 21

how men read self-help books, and
something about how men present themselves
when talking about doing something “unmanly”.

Question 22

These case studies of data analysis illustrate

Answer 22

1. Phenomenological interview questions.
2. The roles of coding and counting in qualitative
   analysis.
3. The value of paying attention to things that
   interviewees say that are extraneous to one’s
   original research goals.

Question 23

Data analysis should focus on

Answer 23

interpretation and
understanding.

Question 24

It is an effort to

Answer 24

interpret social life

Question 25

The reception of social life (subjectivity, meaning)
may be

Answer 25

quite different from the appearance
(structure, authoritative interpretation) of it.
— Qualitative interviews provide a unique means of
engaging people in discussion about their interpretation of
meaning.

Question 26

Respondents can be very forthcoming when talking
about personal issues of importance to them

Answer 26

Respondents can go way off topic if you let them.

Question 27

Time-consuming and resource-intensive

Answer 27

Requires a lot of attention to participant
administration and data management.

Question 28

Synopsis: interpretive humanist data analysis

Answer 28

Focused on interpreting the meaning of narratives
told by our research subjects.
 Telling a compelling story – one that helps us better
understand other people – based on that
interpretation.