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To examine the evaluative criteria applied by academic audiences to autoethnographic research and address methodological debates regarding what constitutes legitimate scholarly inquiry.

March 1, 2000Sociology of Sport Journal

Autoethnography and Narratives of Self: Reflections on Criteria in Action

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ASAndrew C. SparkesLeeds Beckett University

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Methodological reflection reveals how conventional evaluative criteria constrain autoethnographic research in sociology, highlighting the need for alternative judgment standards.

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To examine the evaluative criteria applied by academic audiences to autoethnographic research and address methodological debates regarding what constitutes legitimate scholarly inquiry.
Reflexive analysis of reviewer feedback, editorial decisions, and audience reactions to an autoethnographic manuscript submitted to a leading academic journal.
Conceptual evaluation of disciplinary boundary-policing and charges of self-indulgence used against personal narrative methodologies.
Conventional scientific and sociological criteria frequently mischaracterize autoethnographies as self-indulgent, operating as regulatory barriers against non-traditional inquiry.
Audience responses demonstrate that evocative, personal narratives require trust-based evaluative criteria rather than orthodox standards of objectivity.

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Andrew C. Sparkes (2000) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dbcc6e7d378569a9835f48 https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.17.1.21

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Methodological reflection reveals how conventional evaluative criteria constrain autoethnographic research in sociology, highlighting the need for alternative judgment standards.

Autoethnography and Narratives of Self: Reflections on Criteria in Action

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Autoethnography and Narratives of Self: Reflections on Criteria in Action

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