Catching Gender-Identity Production in Flight: Making the Commonplace Visible
The purpose of this article is to develop and illustrate an approach for making the commonplace visible in a natural, as opposed to manipulated, social setting. The key research task was to find a way of capturing the ongoing production or enactment of the self that provides some insight into the wa...
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Athabasca University Press
2009-01-01
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| author | Darryl W. Coulthard |
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| description | The purpose of this article is to develop and illustrate an approach for making the commonplace visible in a natural, as opposed to manipulated, social setting. The key research task was to find a way of capturing the ongoing production or enactment of the self that provides some insight into the way in which it is produced in a routine, matter of fact way. The article takes a number of steps to develop a research approach to the task. First, gender-identity was selected as a more specific aspect of self-production. Second, the concept of "flashpoints" was used to refer to a particular moment in the routine which achieves some significance or salience as a result of the participants seizing upon some otherwise unremarkable action or statement and twisting it to their purpose. In this study, the purpose was gender-identity creation. Primary school children in the classroom and their teachers were the participants of the study. Through the use of flashpoints, the article demonstrates how gender-identity production of these children can be caught in flight. The article concludes that this approach can be added to the researcher's toolkit. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9db77f697cbd4936ba609602b23f04ef2022-12-21T21:14:19ZengAthabasca University PressJournal of Research Practice1712-851X2009-01-0152M5Catching Gender-Identity Production in Flight: Making the Commonplace VisibleDarryl W. CoulthardThe purpose of this article is to develop and illustrate an approach for making the commonplace visible in a natural, as opposed to manipulated, social setting. The key research task was to find a way of capturing the ongoing production or enactment of the self that provides some insight into the way in which it is produced in a routine, matter of fact way. The article takes a number of steps to develop a research approach to the task. First, gender-identity was selected as a more specific aspect of self-production. Second, the concept of "flashpoints" was used to refer to a particular moment in the routine which achieves some significance or salience as a result of the participants seizing upon some otherwise unremarkable action or statement and twisting it to their purpose. In this study, the purpose was gender-identity creation. Primary school children in the classroom and their teachers were the participants of the study. Through the use of flashpoints, the article demonstrates how gender-identity production of these children can be caught in flight. The article concludes that this approach can be added to the researcher's toolkit.http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/177/180gender-identityself-identityresearch methodsocial constructionism |
| spellingShingle | Darryl W. Coulthard Catching Gender-Identity Production in Flight: Making the Commonplace Visible Journal of Research Practice gender-identity self-identity research method social constructionism |
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| title_short | Catching Gender-Identity Production in Flight: Making the Commonplace Visible |
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