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質性訪談中的權力關係

Power Relations in Qualitative Interviews

摘要


質性訪談的資料生產是一個在特定的情境脈絡底下,由特定的訪談者與特定的研究參與者互動協商的結果,這樣的信念越來越廣為接受。在此一互動協商的過程中,有許多層面的因素會介入影響到訪談的成果,本文將焦點鎖定在質性訪談研究中的「權力關係」,旨在探究質性訪談過程中的「權力」因素會如何運作?而質性研究人員又該如何面對?有些女性主義學者主張訪談者與研究參與者維持一種非等級性(non-hierarchical)的關係,不僅具有倫理的意涵,並且具備方法論層面的意義,但此一立場後來也受到了許多挑戰。本文主張一種立場:研究者應該在整個研究過程中都密切覺察「權力」之運作,並且將之視為我們理解研究對象、研究議題,以及我們自身的一個重要窗口。

並列摘要


It is believed that the outcome of a qualitative interview is the result of interaction and negotiation between a specific interviewer and a specific interviewee under a specific context, and this belief is increasingly accepted. In this interactive negotiation process, there are many levels of factors that will influence the outcome of the interview. Among these many factors, this article focuses on the "power relationship" in qualitative interview research, in order to explore: (a) How does the factor of "power" work during the whole process of interview? (b) How should qualitative researchers face it? Some feminist scholars advocate that the interviewer should build with the interviewee a non-hierarchical relationship, which not only has ethical meaning but also has methodological significance, which will allow the interview to better perform its inquiry function. But this position has since been challenged. Although the interviewer has the power to "look" at the interviewee and set the agenda, the interviewer also has his/her own needs, desires, or goals, which he/she wants to express or achieve through the interview, and the power relationship in the interview cannot go operate independent from the outside real world. Therefore, the researcher should be aware of the operation of "power" throughout the entire research process, and to reflect on the power dynamics of the interview, taking it as an important window of our understanding of the research participants, research issues, and ourselves.

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