One of the most striking challenges encountered during the empirical stages of our audience research project, `Making Class and the Self through Televised Ethical Scenarios' (funded as part of the ESRC's Identities and Social Action programme), stemmed from how the different discursive resources held by our research participants impacted upon the kind of data collected. We argue that social class is reconfigured in each research encounter, not only through the adoption of moral positions in relation to `reality' television as we might expect, but also through the forms of authority available for participants. Different methods enabled the display of dissimilar relationships to television: reflexive telling, immanent positioning and affective responses all gave distinct variations of moral authority. Therefore, understanding the form as well as the content of our participants' responses is crucial to interpreting our data. These methodological observations underpin our earlier theoretical critique of the `turn' to subjectivity in social theory (Wood and Skeggs, 2004), where we suggest that the performance of the self is an activity that reproduces the social distinctions that theorists claim are in demise.
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机译：在我们的受众研究项目的经验阶段中，“通过电视转播的道德场景进行阶级和自我”（作为ESRC的身份和社会行动计划的一部分提供资金）遇到的最突出挑战之一是源于如何保持不同的话语资源我们的研究参与者对收集到的数据种类产生了影响。我们认为，社会阶层在每次研究遭遇中都得到了重新配置，不仅是通过采用了我们可能期望的与“真实”电视相关的道德立场，而且还通过了参与者可以使用的权威形式。不同的方法可以显示与电视的不同关系：反身的讲述，内在的定位和情感的反应都赋予了道德权威不同的变化。因此，了解参与者的回答的形式和内容对于解释我们的数据至关重要。这些方法论的观察支持了我们较早的对社会理论向主体性“转向”的理论批判（Wood and Skeggs，2004），我们认为自我的表现是一种复制理论家声称正在消亡的社会区别的活动。
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