Research Survey: British Women's opinions of "Woke"

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Greetings Mumsnet Community,

I am a researcher currently conducting doctoral work on the perceptions of women around the concepts and ideas often categorized popularly as "woke". This research is being conducted at the Sorbonne IV in Paris under the department HDEA, Histoire et Dynamique des Espaces Anglophones. This survey is anonymous. The ethics statement is to be found at the beginning of the survey.

Your participation is invaluable for this work and will contribute to understanding the positions of British women on contemporary issues around women's rights, politics and society.

This survey is posted on the Survey Monkey platform and is designed to be brief, an estimated 6 minutes to complete.

Woke in Britain: Female Perspectives

Many thanks for reading and thank you in advance for your kind participation.

Rebecca

You need to be very very clear abut what the "+" stands for

and also read this
https://frontlinewomen.substack.com/p/issue-18-the-frontline

fill out the questionnaire it asks for your sex

Thank you for the feedback and the article!

Just a follow-up on question 18: There is a field for comments with that question. Hopefully that is visible and there is no technical issue. Thank you again!

For me, it was question 7 (about LGBTQ+) which needed a box to expand on the question but there wasn't space to say why - in different ways - LGB and TQ are important to me.

Not in this context. By not providing a definition that many Black and Brown British women understand as part of the selection the results will be skewed. The OP said they were seeking opinions not looking for an answer to be confirmed.

The OP could have just said 'excluding Black and Brown British women' rather than implying in in the opening question.

Thank you! There may be a "round 2" of this survey in a few months. I will be sure to expand the commentary boxes. Thanks!

The Origins or at least a reference to its original meaning and context are relevant to the first question for Black and Brown British women, relevant if the OP is seeking the opinions of British Women, not just one section of it.

If the the" goal is to know how women feel about the terms..."

Why are Black and Brown British women excluded? Their primary definition is not available.

It's a bad faith survey.

As others have said, this is a poorly constructed survey and really doesn't adhere to best practice for social science or socio-linguistic methodologies. Any data you attempt to collect from answers will be correlation at best, but basically impossible to extrapolate or analyse from ethically or accurately. It reads as if you have a preconceived agenda rather than wanting to solicit a wide range of opinions and attitudes.

The apparent premise is misguided and questions are badly phrased and do not really relate to each other. Your supervisors should have picked this up, before approving for circulation.

The way this is constructed you are feeding into and effectively reinforcing a very problematic understanding of woke and attempting to link it to other issues and attitudes. As a respondent i had to work hard to counter this. I gave up, as have others, so again any data you collect will be distorted. Crafting a research survey is a skill and requires quite a lot of effort to make it meaningful.

Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I wouldn't issue a part 2. I really would withdraw it and redesign it and research survey methodologies further. I wish you luck.

Just to be clear surveys are a limitedly useful tool, but in this case the critical reaction you are getting is because it is the survey design that is problematic not the survey method itself.

Thank you for you feedback. No one is excluded from the survey. I am not sure why that is the impression. But thank you as I will be going back to my director with the comments here:

Thank you for the feedback

No one is excluded from the survey.

People have told you why they were excluded from the survey. You appropriate a word and do not give the Black and Brown British community a definition based on their truth and your answer is I am not sure why that is the impression. You should feed back to your Director that the feedback is that you create racially exclusives surveys. Say hello to Nige when you see him.

"What does woke mean to you?" /\ this.

Thanks again: But there is no exclusion of anyone in this survey. The survey is constructed for women, and not based on any other critieria. As one can see, the word "woke" itself gets all manner of reactions so, my intent was to avoid giving any definitions or background to participants in order to collect a pure response without planting seeds of any sort, be them historic or definitional. As it seems, the are many interpretations of the word, some embracing it , some rejecting it.

Sorry, I don't know who "Nige" is.

Thanks again

I'm not responding to that because the way the questions are designed makes it clear you're leading for a response. The first question asks you for your definition of woke, has a space for 'other' but you have to pick one of the pre filled options anyway! This is poor research.

Thank you for your feedback

Please elaborate.

I agree with @ShawnaMacallister it's a very poorly designed survey. I don't see how you're going to extract any useful data from that.

I'm surprised it was approved in that form.

I won't be completing it.

But you did give loaded definitions.

Black and Brown British women dont need your help to decide whether or not they have been excluded.

You have clearly posted in bad faith.

But you have excluded anyone for whom woke means awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination.

How are they excluded? Just choose "other" and write that in.

The first option in the drop down menu is "sensitive to social justice issues" which is pretty close, or as another poster says you could choose "other" and type in the exact formulation of words you prefer. It's hardly exclusion.

Can you really not see an issue with doing a survey about the meaning of a word that originally was specifically about racism, and not mentioning that at all in any of the answers?