By F. Seggie
This e-book explores academic and cultural studies of “part-time unveilers” in the course of their measure courses in public associations in Turkey. The time period “part-time unveiler” is coined to consult undergraduate woman scholars who hide their hair of their deepest lives, yet who eliminate the headband whereas at a Turkish college due to the better schooling headband ban coverage. The e-book relies on a qualitative examine that concerned one-on-one interviews with thirty members. The e-book highlights how part-time unveilers comprehend and negotiate the coverage, the demanding situations and possibilities linked to unveiling and the ideas they use based on those, and the impression of the headband ban on part-time unveilers’ feel of identification.
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None of the students wanted to be tape-recorded and asked me to write (and sign) “I conducted this interview without using a tape recorder” on the copy of the consent form they were going to keep. The interviews lasted between 150 and 240 minutes. At the end of each interview, I asked the interviewee to provide some March 23, 2011 15:51 MAC-US/TURKY Page-8 9780230110373_02_ch01 THE RESEARCH AND THE RESEARCHER 9 feedback. On the basis of my observations and the feedback received from three part-time unveilers, I made the necessary changes and revisions and finalized my interview questions and the rules and procedures for the interviews.
Thus, they were not entirely convinced about the rigor of the study. In addition, lately they had come across a couple of qualitative researchers asking for their help to conduct research. March 23, 2011 15:51 MAC-US/TURKY Page-17 9780230110373_02_ch01 18 RELIGION AND THE STATE IN TURKISH UNIVERSITIES They perceived that qualitative research was full of subjectivity and thus could be biased. This was not how they believed research needed to be conducted. Thus, they refused to help me. Potential interviewees asked me various questions about my personal and educational background, including my study.
This way I had the opportunity to conduct two interviews as opposed to only single interviews. One main advantage of interviewing a woman twice was that the second interview gave her an opportunity to come back and discuss the points she thought she had left out. In addition, during the second interview, the women seemed to be more comfortable with me. Interviewing twice seemed advantageous in terms of trust building, and two part-time unveilers wanted to develop a friendship after the second interview.
