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Swimming against the Stream?: Mindfulness as a Psychosocial Research Methodology 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Stanley, S.,Barker, M.,Edwards, V.,McEwen, E.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Taylor and Francis
  • 출판년도2015
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY
  • 발행사항Vol.12No.1[2015]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1478-0887
  • 소개/요약In this article, we extend psychosocial research methodology by integrating a breaching experiment, influenced by ethnomethodological sociology, with aspects of mindfulness practice, influenced by Buddhist traditions. We offer an empirical investigation of what happens when researcher-participants subtly “swim against the stream” of normative public social conduct in a capital city setting. Our qualitative analysis explores a single case from a corpus of 172 first-person retrospective accounts of standing still and doing nothing in a busy, public place. We investigate the qualitative aspects of how one researcher-participant arguably adopted a mindful, beginner’s mind orientation toward the flow of psychosocial consciousness. We empirically investigate this psychosocial orientation of mindfulness by integrating Wetherell’s concept of affective-discursive practice with James’ stream of consciousness. Mindfulness offers a specific, embodied reorientation toward psychosocial flows. We discuss the methodological implications and limitations of this reorientation for psychosocial research.