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RESEARCHING HARD-TO-REACH SOCIAL GROUPS: THE EXAMPLE OF GAY AND LESBIAN POPULATION IN SLOVENIA
Alenka ŠVAB
; Fakultet dru{tvenih znanosti, Ljubljana
Roman KUHAR
orcid.org/0000-0003-4294-7529
; Mirovni institut, Ljubljana
Sažetak
The article1 discusses the main methodological dilemmas in
researching the everyday life of a hard-to-reach social group
– gay and lesbian population. It is based on the experiences
from the research project on the everyday life of gays and
lesbians in Slovenia, carried out by the authors of the paper
in the period 2002-2004. The project combined qualitative
and quantitative methodology. The quantitative survey
consisted of face-to-face structured interviews
(questionnaires) carried out on the sample of 443 gays and
lesbians. Sampling was done by link-tracing method. The
qualitative part consisted of three lesbian and four gay focus
groups. While the quantitative survey covered a wide range
of aspects of the everyday life (homosexual identity and
coming-out; partnership; violence and discrimination;
education; working place; GLBT subculture and media;
children and family relations), the qualitative research
focused on the selected topics (coming-out, partnership, and
violence) in order to deepen the information gathered by the
survey. In the last part of the article, the authors present the
main findings from the research project, focusing on the
selected topic: violence.
Ključne riječi
gays and lesbians; everyday life; hard-to-reach social groups; survey; focus groups; closet; coming out; partnership
Hrčak ID:
25491
URI
Datum izdavanja:
7.7.2008.
Posjeta: 4.309 *