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Gender & Society, Vol. 9, No. 5, 612-631 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/089124395009005007

ETHNICITY AND EXPERTISE

Racial-Ethnic Knowledge in Sociological Research

MARJORIE L. DeVAULT

Syracuse University

Analysis of an interview conducted by a white researcher with an African American nutritionist points to the significance of racial-ethnic dynamics in the conduct of qualitative research. Interviewers who follow the standard methodological rule—to let findings "emerge" from their data—may fail to hear the significance of race-ethnicity in the accounts of informants. Close analysis suggests that talk will sometimes reveal racial-ethnic dynamics even when these are not explicit topics and that active attention to such structured inequalities produces a more robust analysis. Institutional ethnography and narrative analysis are discussed as alternatives to the grounded-theory approach to qualitative analysis.


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