Awareness of Ageism While Researching Multiple Minority Discrimination: A Discourse and Grounded Theory Analysis Revisiting Own Qualitative Research

The concept awareness, proposed years ago to study contexts of interaction and processes of identity between nursing care personnel and dying patients, may form a methodological and theoretical basis to study ageism. Moreover, awareness is proposed here to be revisited as a core category referring t...

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Published in:Qualitative inquiry 2024-03, Vol.30 (3-4), p.345-353
Main Author: Valles Martínez, Miguel S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age discrimination
Aging
Consciousness
Death & dying
Discourse
Grounded theory
Immigrants
Patients
Qualitative analysis
Qualitative research
Racism
Reflexivity
Research projects
Sexism
Social processes
Sociology
Storytelling
Xenophobia
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Summary:The concept awareness, proposed years ago to study contexts of interaction and processes of identity between nursing care personnel and dying patients, may form a methodological and theoretical basis to study ageism. Moreover, awareness is proposed here to be revisited as a core category referring to basic social processes and discursive axes underling various phenomena such as racism, sexism, or ageism. My aim in this article is a retrospective research storytelling circa the case of aging immigrants as people who have experienced multiple minority discrimination. A discourse and grounded theory analysis were used to reanalyze a selection of qualitative material gathered over the course of two sets of research projects on xenophobia (2006–2012) and multiple discrimination (2013–2019). Becoming aware of ageism in the case of aging immigrants and the researcher himself serves as an exercise of methodological, self-reflexive, qualitative, and embodied enquiry for a better understanding of sociological ageism.
ISSN:1077-8004
1552-7565
DOI:10.1177/10778004221144068