Introduction
This is not a paper about the rights or wrongs of political correctness, or a detailed cultural exploration of its origins and meaning. It is a paper with more modest ambitions: to explore the degree to which political correctness may affect the practice of qualitative research. It is limited even further in scope. It only seeks to explore the potential impacts on a certain section of society - the audience that can be described (very loosely) as working class. This is partly because the body of work that inspired this paper was predominantly amongst this audience, but it is,...