Reviewing challenges and the future for qualitative interviewing

ABSTRACT

In this article, we consider challenges for the existence and practice of qualitative research interviews. We review key features of qualitative interviewing, in particular the debate over the radical critique of interviewing and the nature of the data it generates, to set the scene for our arguments about the current standing and future prognosis for the method of generating data and the technologies that enable this. We look at qualitative interviewing in the context of the political project of neoliberalism and the regime of austerity associated with it, and the linked turn to what is known as ‘big data’, a feature of digital technological developments in garnering data. Qualitative researchers using interview methods have been creative in working with and resisting features of neoliberal austerity pragmatically and politically, and we provide some examples. We also consider an epistemological challenge and resistance from outside of the dominant framework – interviewing in indigenous methodologies. We argue that it is the relationship between the interview as a method of data generation for research and the ways of knowing about the world, that is the epistemology that the interview-based research proceeds from, that is crucial in considering the potentials for the method’s practice.     

Cultural studies in the present tense

Cultural studies professed ‘radical contextualism’ imbues the project with a particular orientation toward ‘the present,’ a consideration of ‘the current moment’ as a configuration of forces shaping possibilities for politically engaged practice and affording concrete potentials for telling better stories. This essay elaborates these claims by way of tribute to Lawrence Grossberg. It is neither retrospective nor prospective. Instead – and in a manner more befitting a figure who continues to champion the political-intellectual practice of cultural studies here and now, in the present – this essay reflects on the author’s experiences learning with and from Grossberg in order to explore the the temporality of the cultural studies project.     

王昌龄诗学几个问题新析

王昌龄论文学"南北宗",以北宗指北方汉魏风骨,以南宗指南朝文风,实际承继了魏征、李延寿等关于南北文风不同的说法。王昌龄论"意"提出很多重要思想,他所论之"意",有着丰富的内涵,既指诗中主旨,又指作品主旨体现出的思想境界,还指构思之意和感兴之意,指诗歌创造的丰厚意蕴。王昌龄"格高"说,是提出一个层次比较高的艺术审美境界。关于声律,王昌龄也提出很多看法。王昌龄论格律调,提出一种理想的审美境界,是一个完整的思想。     

关系嵌入强度对企业技术创新绩效的影响机制研究————基于组织学习能力的中介性调节效应分析

关系嵌入强度对组织的渐进性技术创新绩效和突破性技术创新绩效均有影响,但其中的作用机制有差异,这种差异性主要体现在组织学习能力变量从中扮演的角色不同。就渐进性创新而言,组织学习能力在强关系的作用过程中偏重于扮演中介性角色,而在弱关系的作用过程中偏重于扮演调节性角色。就突破性创新而言,组织学习能力在强关系的作用过程中只有中介性作用,而在弱关系的作用过程中既有中介性作用,也有调节性作用。     

试论吴宓诗学思想的研究现状

本文结合学界对学衡派乃至对整个文化保守主义的观念转变过程,将吴宓诗学思想的研究状况划分为冷落期、尘封期和复兴期三个阶段,并对复兴期中理论界围绕吴宓诗学思想所取得的研究成果进行了分析和归纳,以期展望吴宓诗学思想研究的未来走向.     

拉克劳和墨菲的后马克思主义政治哲学

针对拉克劳和墨菲对马克思主义的解构以及重建,从话语理论和身份政治及激进多元民主三个方面分析了后马克思主义理论的根本实质及现实性问题,指出拉克劳和墨菲在解构马克思主义的同时也最终消解了马克思主义的现实意义和力量,从而根本上否定了他们对马克思主义所谓的超越。     

试论吴宓文学批评的标准和方法

从吴宓的文学批评实践入手,分析论述了吴宓文学批评所秉持的标准和方法。指出道德与审美构成了吴宓进行文学批评的两重标准,而＂义理派＂的文学批评方法又使得呈现于吴宓文学批评文章之中的道德宣喻和情感体察都超越了随机和率性的层面,具备了严肃的学理意义。     

An Examination of the Persistence of the Residual Child Welfare System in the United States: Addressing Charges of Radical Theoretical Myopia with Implications for Social Work Practice

The United States follows what has been termed a “residual” approach to its public child welfare system. This article describes the residual model and contrasts it with the policies of other industrialized nations. It also explores the causes and persistence of the residual model in the United States through the lens of structural-functionalist theory. By doing so, this article attempts to respond to critics of structural social work who maintain that it is overly reliant on conflict theory and has nothing to offer in terms of distinct practice methods. Suggestions for a structurally informed social work practice are made.     

汉语学语前全聋儿童形声字正字法意识及其发展研究

正字法意识是对书写系统组合规则的意识,在形声字中表现为声旁表音意识和形旁表意意识。采取纸笔测验,对某市两所聋校二、四、六年级82名学语前全聋儿童的声旁意识和形旁意识进行测试,探讨聋童形声字正字法意识及其发展特点后发现：学语前全聋儿童具有形声字正字法意识;声旁意识与形旁意识随年级升高而提高,声旁意识呈显著性年级差异,但形旁意识无显著性年级差异;声旁意识和形旁意识的发展关系密切;学语前全聋儿童形声字的正字法意识受语音的影响;现代汉字中85％以上都属于形声字。这一研究结论对探讨学语前全聋儿童汉字识别的认知过程与聋生汉字教学具有重要的理论与实践指导意义。     

The aging male in the 21st century

Background.?Prostate cancer incidence varies significantly among different ethnic groups. However, the report concerning the clinical outcome after radical prostatectomy (RP) in the low incidence Asian population is still limited. We aimed to compare the clinical outcome in patient treated with RP among different ethnic groups and to identify significant prognostic factors in Taiwanese patients.

Methods.?A total of 341 patients with clinical localized prostate cancer undergoing curative RP in three medical centers in Taiwan were included in this study. Ethnic group comparison was performed using the CaPSURE, SEARCH databases from United States (US) and one large European series. The Kaplan–Meier analysis and Cox proportional hazard model were used to identify significant predictors for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) recurrence.

Results.?Compared to the Caucasian white population in the US and Europe studies, the Taiwanese population have higher age at surgery and higher pre-operative PSA level. With mean and median follow-up of 39.1 months and 31.0 months (range 5–120 months), 127 men (37.2%) had PSA recurrence which was significant higher than the Western series. Significant predictors for PSA recurrence identified in the post-operative overall model were PSA level, pathological Gleason Score, pathological tumor stage and lymph node metastasis.

Conclusions.?The clinical outcome of Taiwanese male with prostate cancer post-RP appears inferior to the Western country, which is largely due to delay surgery at higher PSA level. Earlier diagnosis and treatment may improve the cancer control of RP.