OrientationObservationIn-depth interviewsDocument analysis and semiologyConversation and discourse analysisSecondary Data
SurveysExperimentsEthicsResearch outcomes
Conclusion
4.4 Doing in-depth interviews 4.4.3.1.7 Objectivication of subject cannot be avoided There is an argument, that whatever the intention of the dialogic interview process, it is impossible in practice to avoid any objectification of research participants, certainly at the stage of research analysis. Indeed by attempting to make women dialogic partners, Maureen Cain (1986) suggests that it maybe that all one is doing is encouraging women respondents to collude in making themselves an object of study.
The objectivication of the subject is not a problem just of dialogic interviewing but of all forms of interviewing (Ramazanoglu, 1989). Rather more controversially, Cain (1986), Carol Smart (1984) and Sandra Harding (1987) have suggested that the feminist approach to dialogic interviewing might be appropriate when studying relatively powerless subjects but it might not be appropriate, indeed may be counter productive, to the development of feminist theory of the powerful.
