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...thinking. Between 1985 and 1987 new publications in psychology presented arguments for the social construction of a variety of topics from ‘the emotions’ through ‘lesbianism’ to ‘the person’. For my undergraduate dissertation, supervised by Rex Stainton Rogers, I used a technique called Q methodology to study the different discursive frames that people adopt...

...think through the claims about the world that theories represent. In many traditional definitions of the research process, first you define the question. Then you define the data that would allow that question to be answered. Finally you select and carry out the technical method most suited to creating that data. However, this model of research is arguably a mirage that...