Forum: Qualitative Social Research  

Johannes Becker

In this article, I introduce a research perspective which combines the analysis of family and life histories with the analysis of places. I define the terms place and emplacement as being processual and spatial at the same time, aiming at a combination of... see more

Jill Bennett,Lynn Froggett,Gail Kenning,Julian Manley,Lizzie Muller

In our research, two groups of people living with memory loss due to mid-stage dementia were invited to view a film installation, centred on the experience of a woman with a brain lesion and dense amnesia. The groups, recruited from day-care and support s... see more

Katharina Bock

In ethnographic recordings, observations, personal impressions, and individual experiences are described to introduce and to enable readers to comprehend significant occurrences and aspects of a studied culture. In this article I explore the possibilities... see more

Dominik Chomik,Helena Ostrowicka

In this article, we discuss various issues regarding the contemporary reform of science and higher education in Poland, which are constructed and sustained by academics in media discourse. In the performed analyses we refer to the critical and post-Foucau... see more

Angela Dew,Elizabeth McEntyre,Priya Vaughan

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia are among the most researched in the world. Indigenous research methodologies reframe a historical colonial-centric and often exploitative research paradigm, to instead privilege the voices and pe... see more

Judith Eckert,Eva-Maria Bub,Cornelia Koppetsch

Despite the social normalisation and moral de-problematisation of separation and divorce, they are usually anything but normal or unproblematic events for those affected. The events have to be ordered, the separation needs to be legitimised and one's own ... see more

Martyn Hammersley

Since its emergence, ethnomethodology has been subject to a succession of disputes, prompted both by external commentaries and by internal divisions. Often, the external commentaries have been rejected as displaying gross misconceptions about the characte... see more

Regine Herbrik,Heike Kanter

In this article, we retrace how sustainability in our study has been communicatively constructed and how it emerged as a dynamic, but also a relatively stable, social fiction. Also, we contribute to methodological reflections on the practical relevance of... see more

Meltem Karadag,Alexandra König

This article is based on a Turkish-German cooperation project that focused on the migration of workers from Turkey to Germany during the 1960s and 1970s. The research interest has been to look at the ways of self-presenting and self-positioning of the so ... see more

Slawomir Krzychala

In studies of professional praxis and learning communities, the dominant focus has been placed on the analysis of cooperative interactions and the establishment of common goals. I propose adopting the broader BAKHTINIAN perspective of dialogue as a catego... see more

Dariusz Kuncewicz,Dorota Kuncewicz

In this article, we present a procedure for isolating a hidden story from a monologue on an assigned topic. We define a hidden story as a story about the author's own life, accessible to the recipient of a monologue indirectly—by inference—on the basis of... see more

Morten Nissen,Katrine Barington,Morten Halberg

In this article, we analyze non-mainstream social work in Denmark. We focus on how what we call a performative approach in both social work and research can expand the understanding of deconstruction. We argue that critical performance exceeds the negativ... see more

Judith Purkarthofer

Family spaces are considered deeply private environments—taking recording devices into the family home is thus usually not an easy task. And it is even harder to make speakers record themselves without the researcher present. In this article, I describe t... see more

Sana Rizvi

Vignettes are increasingly used within qualitative studies to research difficult topics, requiring ethical mindfulness and sensitivity from researchers. In this article, I examine the methodological issues of incorporating vignettes within qualitative res... see more

Lloyd Daniel Nkoli Tlale,Norma Ruth Arlene Romm

In this article we discuss the duoethnographical approach we adopted to extend/deepen our interpretations of ourselves as academic researchers attempting to practise engaged research with participants in the field. We take, as a starting point for our dis... see more

Lieselot Vandenbussche,Jurian Edelenbos,Jasper Eshuis

Lived experience remains a key concept in qualitative social science research. The study of life-as-experienced is, however, a project that is methodologically problematic due to the fact that researchers can only come to grips with people's lived experie... see more

Werner Vogd,Jonathan Harth

In many areas of qualitative research the question arises of how to methodologically deal with the co-presence of different speaker positions, institutional logics, and—as a result of that—broken self- and world relationships. From a theoretical-methodolo... see more

Annie Waldherr,Lars-Ole Wehden,Daniela Stoltenberg,Peter Miltner,Sophia Ostner,Barbara Pfetsch

At the core of every content analysis is a codebook of relevant categories, frequently developed qualitatively based on a small sample of texts. Currently text mining methods enable us to explore an almost unlimited number of texts in an efficient, fast, ... see more

Michelle K. McGinn,Sandra Acker,Marie Vander Kloet,Anne Wagner

The current research climate has heightened expectations for social science researchers to secure research grant funding at the same time that such funding appears to be more competitive than ever. As a result, researchers experience anxiety, confusion, l... see more

Jo Reichertz

In this article, I take a closer look at the debate that has arisen from 1. the massive changes that qualitative and interpretive social research have undergone in recent years and 2. the associated, clear increase in new methodological approaches. I outl... see more

Maximilian Krug

Charles GOODWIN is known as one of the pioneers in the field of social interaction research. In his latest book, he arranges his previous publications so as to provide a framework that could result in a "radical turn in anthropology." Co-operative action ... see more