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Swimming against the Stream?: Mindfulness as a Psychosocial Research Methodology
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- 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.
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