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Researching Sensitive Topics

Costa, Janeen Arnold, Renzetti, Claire M., Lee, Raymond M.·1994·Journal of Marketing Research
DOI 10.2307/3152234
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PART ONE: WHAT IS SENSITIVE RESEARCH? The Problems of Researching Sensitive Topics - Raymond M Lee and Claire M Renzetti An Overview and Introduction The Ethics and Politics of Sensitive Research - Joan E Sieber PART TWO: DESIGNING RESEARCH ON SENSITIVE TOPICS The Cyclical Pattern of Child Abuse - Sharon D Herzberger A Study of Research Methodology Measuring the Underground Economy - J J Thomas A Suitable Case for Interdisciplinary Treatment? Doing Research in Post-Tiananmen China - Daniel J Curran and Sandra Cook Developing a Community Sample of Gay Men for an Epidemiological Study of AIDS - John L Martin and Laura Dean PART THREE: SENSITIVITY IN FIELD RESEARCH 'They Must Be Crazy' - Marybeth Ayella Some of the Difficulties in Researching 'Cults' Sensitivity as a Problem in Field Research - John D Brewer A Study of Routine Policing in Northern Ireland Mediating the Message - Nigel G Fielding Affinity and Hostility in Research on Sensitive Topics AIDS Prevention Research - Benjamin P Bowser and Joan E Sieber Old Problems and New Solutions PART FOUR: THE USE OF FEMINIST METHODOLOGIES IN RESEARCHING SENSITIVE TOPICS An Education in Interviewing - Rosalind Edwards Placing the Researcher and the Research Interviewing Survivors of Marital Rape - Raquel Kennedy Bergen Doing Feminist Research on Sensitive Topics Using Visual Imagery to Explore Gendered Notions of Pain - Gillian Bendelow PART FIVE: DISSEMINATING SENSITIVE RESEARCH FINDINGS: STRUCTURAL AND PERSONAL CONSTRAINTS Studying African Women's Secret Societies - Pamela J Brink Ethical Issues in Self-Censorship - Patricia A Adler and Peter Adler Ethnographic Research on Sensitive Topics Anticipating Media Coverage - Noreen L Channels Methodological Decisions in Criminal Justice Research

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Authors
Costa, J. A., Renzetti, C. M., & Lee, R. M.
Venue
Journal of Marketing Research
Publisher
JSTOR
Published
1994-08
Volume
31
Issue
3
Pages
437
ISSN
0022-2437 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/3152234
OpenAlex
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786
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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