Writing Positionality for Qualitative Inquiry

A Meta-Analysis of Written Research
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-06668-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Writing Positionality for Qualitative Inquiry: A Meta-Analysis of Written Research provides fundamental instruction for researchers on expressing positionality and incorporating written positionality statements into their research writing. The book offers a distinctive progression from identifying problems to implementing solutions, serving as a practical manual that emphasizes positionality's importance while guiding researchers through critical reflections on their data collection and analysis practices.

Structured in three comprehensive parts, the work provides an overview of research writing practices and engages with existing scholarship to demonstrate how positionality has expanded scientific knowledge development beyond traditional objectivist foundations. Readers gain deep understanding of positionality's necessity within qualitative research through discussion of four major dimensions of written positionality, covering crucial issues such as sociocultural identities. The book explores future modes of positionality through pathways including intersectionality, intertextuality, and temporality, while an appendix featuring the author's own positionality statement serves as a practical reference exemplifying the concepts explored throughout.

This valuable resource serves both emerging and established researchers across social science disciplines seeking to enhance research rigor by situating their role in data collection and analysis. It proves particularly useful for graduate students, qualitative researchers, ethnographers, and academics in sociology, anthropology, education, psychology, and related fields who need practical guidance for developing and articulating their positionality within scholarly work.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sybing, Roehl

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 – Introduction  Chapter 2 – Underpinnings of Positionality  Chapter 3 – Prevailing Theories of Positionality  Chapter 4 – Intrinsic Reflexivity vs. Expressions of Positionality  Chapter 5 – Positionality as Sociocultural Identities  Chapter 6 – Positionality to Research Participants  Chapter 7 – Using Positionality to Conduct Research  Chapter 8 – Situating Positionality in Research Writing  Chapter 9 – Critical Potential of Positionality in Research Writing  Appendix – My Positionality  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Roehl Sybing is a Research Associate at the University of North Dakota. He was previously Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Global Communications at Doshisha University, Kyoto, having taught English as a foreign language, intercultural communication, and social science research methods. He obtained his PhD in Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2020 and his Master of Arts in TESOL & Foreign Language Education (Japanese) from New York University. His research interests include research writing practices, qualitative research methodology, and intercultural communication and dialogue.