Understanding Relational and Group Experiences through the Mmogo-Method® [electronic resource] /
Roos, Vera.editor.
This volume describes the development and application of the Mmogo-method® as a projective visual data-gathering method, applied in different contexts and with different groups of people. "Mmogo" means togetherness in Setswana, one of the 11 official languages of South Africa. The Mmogo-method® provides a deep understanding of personal, relational and group experiences and is particularly useful in cross-cultural contexts and across age groups. By allowing visual expressions of the self as a complex, dynamic social system it overcomes some of the limitations of traditional data-collection methods, such as questionnaires or interviews. The book draws together contributions by leading social scientists to show how this flexible, visual data-collection method can be used independently or jointly with other data-gathering techniques, such as journalling or in-depth interviewing, to acquire rich information. The research method described here enables investigators to access perceptions, feelings and personal experiences participants might otherwise find hard to verbalize and explain. Researchers in disciplines such as education, social sciences, consumer sciences, market research, and city and town planning will find this book and its innovative method particularly valuable in addressing a gap in available visual and other data collection resources.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Part I. Foundations -- Chapter 1. Introducing the Mmogo-Method® as a Visual Data -Collection Method; Vera Roos -- Chapter 2. Conducting the Mmogo-Method®: Vera Roos -- Chapter 3. Theories and Heuristic Informing the Mmogo-Method®; Vera Roos and Andries Baart -- Chapter 4. Research Integrity and the Mmogo-Method®: Some Reflections; Jaco R. Hoffman -- Part II. Data Collection and Analysis -- Chapter 5. Implementing the Mmogo-Method®: A Group of Setswana-Speaking Older People's Relational Experiences in a Rural Community Setting; Vera Roos -- Chapter 6. The Mmogo-Method® and the Intergenerational Group Reflecting Technique to Explore Intergenerational Interactions and Textual Data Analysis; Vera Roos -- Chapter 7. Analyzing Visual Data with Text from the Mmogo-Method®: Experience of Meaning During the Third Trimester of Pregnancy; Vera Roos and Amoné Redelinghuys -- Part III. Applications -- Chapter 8. Theorizing from the Mmogo-Method®: Self-Interactional Group Theory (SIGT) to Explain Relational Interactions; Vera Roos -- Chapter 9. Secondary Analysis of Data from the Mmogo-Method® to Develop a Board Game as Intergenerational Intervention; Maryke Hewitt, Vera Roos and Werner de Klerk -- Chapter 10. Using the Mmogo-Method® to Explore Important Places and Their Meaning in Two Communities: The Importance of Context; Karen Puren and Vera Roos -- Part IV. Reflections and Going Forward -- Chapter 11. Participants' Reflections on Participating in the Mmogo-Method®: The Example of Mental Health Workers' Coping Strategies; Vera Roos, Jenni van der Westhuizen and Anna Keyter -- Chapter 12. Researcher's Reflections on Using the Mmogo-Method® and Other Visual Research Methods; Avivit Cherrington -- Postscript; Vera Roos.
This volume describes the development and application of the Mmogo-method® as a projective visual data-gathering method, applied in different contexts and with different groups of people. "Mmogo" means togetherness in Setswana, one of the 11 official languages of South Africa. The Mmogo-method® provides a deep understanding of personal, relational and group experiences and is particularly useful in cross-cultural contexts and across age groups. By allowing visual expressions of the self as a complex, dynamic social system it overcomes some of the limitations of traditional data-collection methods, such as questionnaires or interviews. The book draws together contributions by leading social scientists to show how this flexible, visual data-collection method can be used independently or jointly with other data-gathering techniques, such as journalling or in-depth interviewing, to acquire rich information. The research method described here enables investigators to access perceptions, feelings and personal experiences participants might otherwise find hard to verbalize and explain. Researchers in disciplines such as education, social sciences, consumer sciences, market research, and city and town planning will find this book and its innovative method particularly valuable in addressing a gap in available visual and other data collection resources.
Applied psychology.
Quality of Life
Cross Cultural Psychology.
Quality of Life Research.