Krieger Beyond Subjectivity

In “Beyond Subjectivity”, the author addresses her personal experience living and participating in a community “without the slightest thought of studying it” (Krieger, pg. 310). Before leaving, she decided to interview the women in the community, which resulted in exactly 75 different interviews. After collecting her data, of a total of 400 pages, she struggled with formatting it. She then decided to apply a three step strategy to her analysis, which would not only gather the women’s interviews, but where she would also personally connect to her own findings. She went through a variety of steps, like the Preinterview Self-assessment, Interview Self-assessment, and Analyzing the Interview Notes, to clarify her own understanding of her data.