21 articles in this issue
Faith Hatani
This article explores the potential of open-access videos available on the Internet as a data source to identify key areas in a rather broad topic in an international context. In order to understand the latest trends relating to a global issue, the study ... see more
Andreas Herz,Luisa Peters,Inga Truschkat
To analyze how actors are embedded in social structures, network research is increasingly using qualitative methods, sometimes in combination with standardized approaches. So far, the development of a method for qualitative structural analysis remains a d... see more
Till Jansen,Arist von Schlippe,Werner Vogd
The metatheory of the documentary method is well suited to fields such as generations and milieus. However, formal organisations are only partly attributable to conjunctive experiential spaces, since explicit bodies of knowledge and practices assume an im... see more
Ingrid Johnston
Embarking on fieldwork in a country and culture that is foreign to oneself will always present challenges alongside the wonderful learning opportunities. Bringing the family along for the ride increases both sides of that equation. This narrative article ... see more
Jacquie Kidd,Mary Patricia Finlayson
Sometimes the different versions of a story should not be reduced to a single "truth," although it is often the role of researchers to do just that. Duoethnography is a methodology that allows multiple views of the same event(s) to be examined, each from ... see more
P. Conrad Kotze,Jan K. Coetzee,Florian Elliker,Thomas S. Eberle
This article explores the application of an integral framework for sociological practice to a case study of White Afrikaans-speaking identity in South Africa. In addition to the introduction of the framework, identity is conceived as a multi-dimensional p... see more
Gerlinde Malli,Susanne Sackl-Sharif
In contrast to quantitative approaches, where interaction effects are usually regarded as errors or disruption, we understand interviews as social situations and the interaction dynamics between interviewee and interviewer as constitutive for data collect... see more
Roland Messmer
The link between human thinking and action has received little attention by researchers. While actions are observable, thinking processes are hidden to them. When researchers ask individuals to explain their thinking processes associated with a specific a... see more
Simeon Mitropolitski
Forming focus groups as a particular technique for gathering information gives excellent results in tracing group discursive dynamics. Compared to individual interviews, however, it has an inherent setback. Expressing opinions without sufficient confident... see more
Stefan Paulus
This contribution deals with methodological consideration s and methodical approaches to a dispositive analysis. Siegfried JÄGER (2001) argued that an explicit method can be developed only in connection with concrete research projects. Other r... see more
Frances Rapport,Hayley A. Hutchings,Sarah Wright,Marcus A. Doel,Clare Clement,Keir Lewis
In this article we examine whether an innovative mixed method approach could highlight the positive and challenging effects of a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme (PRP) on the Quality of Life (QOL) of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (... see more
Petra Rodik,Jaka Primorac
In this article we critically analyse the usage of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) among early-career sociology researchers in Croatia. In Croatia, the CAQDAS community is very small and is dominated by problems of great expe... see more
Norma Ruth Arlene Romm
In this article I consider some examples of conducting focus groups in South Africa with school teachers in a manner which takes into account indigenous ways of knowing. Indigenous knowing (within various indigenous cultural heritages) can be defined as l... see more
Roslyn Fraser Schoen
This article explores the folk legend as one articulation of the social control of women in rural Bangladesh. Stories and legends emerged when women were interviewed about the effects of men leaving the village for wage-based jobs in cities and abroad. In... see more
Sarah Stahlke Wall
Ethnography is one of the oldest qualitative methods, yet increasingly, researchers from various disciplines are using and adapting ethnography beyond its original intents. In particular, a form of ethnography known as "focused ethnography" has emerged. H... see more
Maria Tamboukou
In this article, I look back in an art/research experiment of convening an exhibition of women artists and inviting them to a round-table discussion in the context of a sociological conference. The artists who took part in this event had been previously i... see more
Elin K. Thunman,Marcus P. Persson
This study is based on in-depth interviews with 28 Swedish public service workers. With the help of narrative analysis, we explore how the workers use language to explain their subjective experiences of work stress. Based on a three-level typology, this a... see more
Sule Tomkinson
By drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork and my field diaries in refugee decision-making in Canada, I make three arguments in this article. First, the binary of research in closed vs. open settings may have contributed to overlooking of eth... see more
Nicole Burzan
Udo KUCKARTZ has provided a German introduction into "mixed methods," tying into an Anglo-American discourse with a particularly practical orientation. The book discusses the development of mixed methods, important definitions, conceptual connections, and... see more
Marc Dietrich
This article focuses on a double review of two anthologies worth reading. The contributions in question analyze an image of the White House's Situation Room from different disciplinary, methodical and theoretical perspectives of image analysis. The image ... see more
Heike Kanter
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1501102