Forum: Qualitative Social Research  

Margrit Schreier,Christoph Stamann,Markus Janssen,Thomas Dahl,Amanda Whittal

In this contribution we introduce Part I of the special issue on qualitative content analysis (QCA). We start by describing the rationale on which this special issue is based and our considerations in dividing the topic into two separate parts. We then pr... see more

Philipp Mayring

More than 35 years ago I developed the basic procedures of a qualitative content analysis which are still widely used in qualitative oriented social science text analysis. I want to give an overview of the reception and recent developments of this approac... see more

Udo Kuckartz

At the beginning of the 1950s, when communication research was at its peak, KRACAUER coined the term "qualitative content analysis." Today, the method is one of the most frequently used social research methods in Germany. Building on KRACAUER's line of ar... see more

Sebastian Ruin

Qualitative content analysis (QCA) is an established method in different fields of social and educational sciences. It can be located at the intersection of quantitative and qualitative research approaches. Although generally oriented towards hermeneutic-... see more

Jochen Glaser,Grit Laudel

With this article, we seek to contribute to the methodological discussion about the fit of qualitative methods for specific purposes by examining the role that extractive qualitative content analysis (EQCA) can play in the discovery of causal mechanisms. ... see more

Mojtaba Vaismoradi,Sherrill Snelgrove

Qualitative design consists of various approaches towards data collection, which researchers can use to help with the provision of both cultural and contextual description and interpretation of social phenomena. Qualitative content analysis (QCA) and them... see more

Amir Marvasti

In this article, I consider how qualitative content analysis (QCA) relates to other qualitative research methods and the field of qualitative research in general. I begin by reviewing the commonalities between QCA and more generic forms of content analysi... see more

Bammidi Devi Prasad

The history of content analysis is largely the history of quantitative content analysis. Although qualitative content analysis (QCA) was used in scholarly writings, it remained largely limited to an explorative, impressionistic, and less pragmatic role. R... see more

Christoph Stamann,Markus Janssen

In this article we report on experiences from a qualitative content analysis interpretation group. Based on the claims and conceptions of "interpretation group" the challenges of developing a common practice and the capacity to work together as a group ar... see more

Katriina Vasarik Staub,Marco Galle,Rita Stebler,Kurt Reusser

Implementing strategies of quality management is an increasingly popular and promising approach to assuring quality in qualitative research, especially in research projects involving a large number of researchers. In this contribution we study and reflect... see more

Judith Becker,Franziska Moser,Maria Fleßner,Bettina Hannover

Although a cooperative approach has been repeatedly recommended by representatives of qualitative research, there is little in the literature on how to proceed such research. In this article we describe our experiences with the cooperative conduction of a... see more

Julia Schnepf,Norbert Groeben

We explore the concept of qualitative meta-analysis as an unconventional tool of analyzing and summarizing empirical findings of previous studies. In contrast to statistical meta-analyses and the use of meta-syntheses or systematic reviews, using qualitat... see more

Carmen Hack

In this article, I illustrate the potential for further analysis inherent in the analysis of network member constellation. As a basis for this, a combination of thematic qualitative text analysis and qualitative structural analysis is used to analyze expe... see more

Annatina Kull,Suse Petersen,Marc-Antoine Camp

In this report we consider methodological challenges that arise in intercultural comparative research projects due to linguistic diversity and culture-specific connotations. Solutions for the collection, preparation, and evaluation of data in multilingual... see more

Sybille Reinke de Buitrago

In this article, I discuss the challenges of conducting a qualitative content analysis in more than one language. Doing research across languages requires detailed attendance to different ways of meaning-making and to the role of distinct (political) cult... see more

Dominik Želinský

In this shop floor report I explore the process of constructing and reconstructing a coding frame for qualitative content analysis. Drawing on my research experience with the archives of the communist secret police, I highlight the advantages of employing... see more

Karla Spendrin

In this article I present methodical challenges of a research project in which a structuring qualitative content analysis based on STEIGLEDER (2008) was used to revise theoretically-developed categories of didactical situations. With the aim of inductive ... see more

Cornelia Driesen

Category positioning is a new methodological procedure for organizational (higher education) research which can be integrated in qualitative content analysis. The objective of this methodological procedure is to ascertain the subjective importance that ma... see more

Margaret R. Roller

Qualitative content analysis is a method that shares many of the unique attributes associated with all qualitative research methods. These shared attributes extend to a key consideration in all qualitative research designs, i.e., the integration of qualit... see more

Annette Hoxtell

It is foreseeable that (semi-) automation of qualitative content analysis will soon take place; in fact it is already partially feasible. Based on a qualitative content analysis that I performed, I give an overview of what a semi-automated qualitative con... see more

Francesco Arcidiacono,Clotilde Pontecorvo

In this article, using a multidimensional methodology, we explored the role of materiality in the everyday lives of eight Italian families. Focusing on spaces and objects, we analyzed how people "use" material frames and boundaries in expanding their indi... see more

Michaela Artmann

How scientific knowledge and practical school skills can be better interlinked with a view to later professional teaching is a central question in teacher education, which currently is being increasingly discussed in the course of the modularisation of te... see more

Helene Antoni Barnard

In this article, I explore the researcher identity of senior women academics in a South African institution of higher education. The aim was to uncover the identity tensions they experience in relation to being a researcher and to understand how they resp... see more

Daniel Goldmann

The documentary method, which was originally developed as a milieu research method in the study of friendship and leisure groups, has established itself in various fields of educational science. This also applies to school and teaching research. In this a... see more

Melissa Hauber-Özer

In this article, I examine my own experience—as a white, American woman, an experienced second language educator, and a novice scholar of forced migration—of becoming an immigrant to Turkey. Approached as a reflexive positionality statement in preparation... see more

Eneli Kindsiko,Helen Poltimäe

It is essential for scholars to reflect on their research practices and critically assess scientific rigor. In the current article, we aim to critically review the state of qualitative research in organization studies by focusing on trends in sample sizes... see more

Annelies Kusters,Maartje De Meulder

In this article, we discuss the use of language portraits (LP) as a research method to investigate the embodied multilingual repertoires of people who use both spoken and signed languages. Our discussion is based on two studies in which most participants ... see more

Mona Motakef,Christine Wimbauer

Recognition has not previously played a systematic role in precarity research, even though precarity—closely related to employment or expanded to the life context— also challenges the recognition of relationships. Consequently, we have developed an empiri... see more

Blake Peck,Jane Mummery

As detailed examination of the experience of the individual, the Self or the I is overtaken in the intellectual climate of qualitative research by an aim to understand human experience on a collective or transferable level, the claim made by qualitative r... see more

Ina Schaefer,Gesine Bär,die Mitglieder des Forschungsprojektes ElfE

In German speaking countries, the number of participatory research projects is increasing, but participatory data analysis is still rarely conducted. Referring to the project "ElfE – Parents Asking Parents," part of the "PartKommPlus – Research Consortium... see more

Nathan David Stephens Griffin,Naomi Christina Griffin

In a recent MailOnline article, CLEARY described millennials as "entitled, narcissistic, self-interested, unfocussed and lazy" (2017, n.p.). The language echoed DELAMONT's (2007) critique of autoethnography, an approach to research that examines the socia... see more

Stephanie Thompson,Pauline Marsh,Jon Mond,Craig Brown

The "Living Loving Dying" research project aimed to improve end of life and bereavement care for people caring and dying in rural areas. The data were provided by people who had experienced caring for someone until his/her death, while living in an area o... see more

Kim Ward,Merryn Gott,Karen Hoare

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment for sleep apnoea can be challenging for patients to master. Given limited evidence on this topic, we used constructionist grounded theory methodology to explore experiences of living with CPAP from part... see more

Nini Fang

The book under review gains a rare scholarly vitality by persisting through the challenging tasks of juxtaposing two seemingly polarized fields of activities—stand-up performance and therapeutic encounters. The unfolding of the narrative coherently center... see more

Lisa Janotta

In this essay I discuss the integration of the book "The Life Story" by Daniel BERTAUX into the German based tradition of biographical research.  I will present the core concepts of his ethnosociological approach and further criticize some of his cen... see more

Katharina Miko-Schefzig

This review essay focuses on the film "Auf den Spuren von Martha Muchow" [In Search of Martha Muchow, a documentary about the psychologist Martha MUCHOW, who researched childhood and adolescence in the 1920s and 1930s. She was a pioneer of the socio-spati... see more

Kelly Colleen O'Neil

In this article I offer a review of HUMBLE and RADINA's 2019 book, "How Qualitative Data Analysis Happens: Moving Beyond 'Themes Emerged'," a collection of commentaries from qualitative researchers discussing their approaches to data analysis. The editors... see more

Johannes Twardella

For many students, learning is a crisis-prone process. By being confronted with something strange, they are in crisis. The role of teachers is both to initiate such crises and to assist in their solution. But even teachers can be in crisis during class. H... see more