%0 Journal Article
%T Minds, Hearts, and Bodies, Not Data Points: A Response to Harris, McDonald, and Sparks¡¯s ¡°Sexual Harassment in the Military: Individual Experiences, Demographics, and Organizational Contexts¡±
%A Connie A. Buscha
%J Armed Forces & Society
%@ 1556-0848
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0095327X18767090
%X Harris, McDonald, and Sparks¡¯s recent quantitative research article, Sexual Harassment in the Military: Individual Experiences, Demographics, and Organizational Contexts, does not deliver its title¡¯s promises. In 2018, social science research investigating, describing, and, ultimately, impacting human lives has advanced beyond overly simplistic figures of data points on x- and y-axes and rhetorical findings. Therefore, this response challenges numerous aspects of Harris, McDonald, and Sparks¡¯s article. It identifies pragmatism as a valuable theoretical perspective from which to investigate the phenomenon of sexual harassment in the military. It further asserts that a qualitative methodology best provides rich, nuanced, and descriptive data from which researchers and scholars can identify measures to mitigate negative experiences for all service members regardless of gender
%K military
%K gender
%K sexual harassment
%K pragmatism
%K qualitative research
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0095327X18767090