Perspektiven qualitativer Forscher*innen: die Aushandlung von Ethik in der qualitativen Forschung

Autor/innen

  • Pei-Jung Li Indiana University Bloomington
  • Darcy Furlong Indiana University Bloomington
  • Jessica Nina Lester Indiana University Bloomington

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.1.4262

Schlagworte:

Ethik, qualitative Forschungsethik, qualitative Forscher*innen

Abstract

Die Literatur zu Forschungsethik in der qualitativen Forschung ist umfangreich und hat eine lange Tradition. Zahlreiche Wissenschaftler*innen haben autoethnografische Berichte und methodologische Übersichten darüber verfasst, wie sie Ethik in der Praxis verhandeln. Trotz verschiedener Definitionen und Kategorisierungen von Forschungsethik wurde bisher aber in relativ wenigen empirischen Untersuchungen dargelegt, wie diese in der Praxis umgesetzt wird. Wir haben in diesem Artikel die Erfahrungen von Forscher*innen mit Ethik und ethischen Entscheidungsfindungen anhand von 30 halbstrukturierten Interviews, die verschiedene geografische und disziplinäre Bereiche abdecken, analysiert. In den Daten identifizierten wir drei Themenbereiche: Erstens wurden persönliche moralische Überzeugungen der Teilnehmer*innen als zentral für den Umgang mit Forschungsethik beschrieben; zweitens wurden soziale und kulturelle Kontexte als prägend für ethische Praktiken genannt; und drittens wurden institutionelle oder regulatorische Ethik-Kommissionen als Einflussfaktoren auf ethische Praktiken verstanden. Diese Ergebnisse tragen zur umfangreichen Literatur über Forschungsethik in der qualitativen Forschung bei, indem wir ein empirisch fundiertes Verständnis der nuancierten Wege bieten, wie Forscher*innen Ethik prozedural und in der Praxis Sinn verleihen können.

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Autor/innen-Biografien

Pei-Jung Li, Indiana University Bloomington

Pei-Jung LI (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in qualitative and quantitative research methodology at Indiana University Bloomington. She holds a master's degree in education from Taiwan and a second master's degree in learning sciences from Indiana University. Drawing from her work with international students, her research interests include critical and reflexive qualitative research methodology, creative writing and representation, research ethics, and the researcher-participant relationship.

Darcy Furlong, Indiana University Bloomington

Darcy E. FURLONG (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Qualitative Methodology program in the School of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington. She draws upon disability theory to inform her methodological understandings and anti-ableist research practices. In her applied research, she uses conversation analysis to study health care interactions, particularly in neurodevelopmental contexts.

Jessica Nina Lester, Indiana University Bloomington

Jessica Nina LESTER is a professor of qualitative methodology in the School of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a qualitative methodologist and interdisciplinary researcher who publishes in areas related to qualitative method/ology, with a particular focus on discourse and conversation analysis methods, digital tools/spaces in qualitative research, and disability in critical qualitative inquiry. In much of her substantive research, she has sought to examine and illustrate how everyday and institutional language use makes visible what and who becomes positioned as normal and abnormal in relation to the oft taken-for-granted normality-abnormality binary.

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Veröffentlicht

2025-01-29

Zitationsvorschlag

Li, P.-J., Furlong, D., & Lester, J. N. (2025). Perspektiven qualitativer Forscher*innen: die Aushandlung von Ethik in der qualitativen Forschung. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-26.1.4262

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Rubrik

FQS-Debatte: Qualitative Forschung und Ethik