...Oakley (1981: 58), in her article 'Interviewing women', has referred to 'the mythology of "hygienic" research with its accompanying mystification of the...researched as objective instruments of data production' and urges that this: 'be replaced by the recognition that personal involvement is more than dangerous...

...research process, in the sense that Oakley (1981) identifies where 'personal involvement is more than dangerous bias, it is the condition under which people come to know each other and admit others into their lives' (p. 58). In many types of positivistic research personal involvement...

...assumptions and values by the researchers. According to Oakley (1981:58), The mythology of hygienic research with its accompanying mystification of the...researched as objective instruments of data production [should] be replaced by the recognition that personal involvement ... is the condition under which...

...mystification of the researcher as an objective instrument. Oakley argues that this must be replaced with the recognition that personal involvement is more than a dangerous bias. It is, she suggests, "the condition under which people come to know each other and to admit others into their...

...research but in social science research in general. It requires, further, that the mythology of "hygienic" research with its accompanying mystification of the...recognition that personal involvement is more than dangerous bias — it is the condition under which people come to know each other and to admit others...

...research but in social science research in general. It requires, further, that the mythology of 'hygienic' research with its accompanying mystification of the...recognition that personal involvement is more than dangerous bias - it is the condition under which people come to know each other and to admit others...