Forum: Qualitative Social Research  

Roni Berger,Marilyn S. Paul

This article discusses the benefit of combining a quantitative and qualitative approach in studying social phenomena and illustrates it relative to the experience of individuals struggling with infertility. The combined use of the two methodologies allows... see more

Emily Bishop,Karen Willis

Poetic inquiry is a contentious area of qualitative research. In this article, we discuss some of the issues plaguing this field of inquiry. We then analyse a collection of poems about hope written by a sample of young people from Tasmania, Australia. The... see more

Admire Chereni

Many scholars view the relaxation of restrictions to enter and reside in South Africa after the end of apartheid in 1994 as a catalyst for a number of changes in regional human migration. In this article, I show that human migration dynamics in post-apart... see more

Robert Garot

This article describes the varieties of relations with African immigrant interviewees in Tuscany as experienced by a white male interviewer from the United States. Franz FANON's discussion of the psycho-affective consequences of colonialism is vital for u... see more

Michael J. Hodgins,Katherine M. Boydell

This article is deliberately unconventional in style and reflects a conversation between us—Katherine, senior scientist/principal investigator and Michael, research coordinator—as we embark on an arts-based health research study to explore the theoretical... see more

Sarah Irwin,Joanna Bornat,Mandy Winterton

In their article, published in this journal, COLTART, HENWOOD and SHIRANI raise a number of issues regarding the effective and ethical conduct of qualitative secondary analysis. In doing so they seek to exemplify general points about secondary analytic pr... see more

Reiner Keller

In this contribution I begin by reviewing past views on the future of qualitative social research. In different ways, all of these views give the same account of a problematic present state which must be overcome by following their own particular "mandato... see more

Thirusha Naidu

During my research with home-based care volunteers in South Africa I used autoethnography and poetic reflection to document the parallel realisation of my changing identity as a researcher and the home-based care volunteers' realisation of their identity ... see more

Helga Pelizäus-Hoffmeister

Everyday mobility—the ability to move around freely in one's  neighborhood—is discussed as an essential foundation of social participation in current mobility research. Numerous studies indicate that mobility decreases as age increases. The decrease ... see more

Merlin Schaeffer

What do inherited financial assets signify to heirs and testators and how does this shape their conduct? Based on grounded theory methodology and twenty open, thematically structured interviews with US heirs, future heirs and testators, this article expli... see more

Nicolás Schöngut Grollmus

Presented in this article are different constructions of masculinity produced by male teenagers who have suffered physical violence, specifically in cases in which the perpetrators were male adults who embody a model of masculinity in Chilean society. In ... see more

Sylka Scholz,Michel Kusche,Nicole Scherber,Sandra Scherber,David Stiller

Sociological research has so far largely underestimated the potential of film analysis as a means of analyzing societal change. The findings presented in this article are part of current efforts to establish a visual sociology, and specifically a sociolog... see more

Margrit Schreier

In the discussion of qualitative content analysis different renderings of the method are considered, such as structured-thematic, evaluating, scaling, summary, or typological qualitative content analysis. There has been little discussion, however, of how ... see more

Paula Sequeiros

May the changes in the representations of the public library be propitiated by readers' appropriations of the Internet? To answer this question, a theoretically-driven and empirically-based research was developed in a public library in Portugal, combining... see more

Jimena Silva

To understand ideologies based on gender, this qualitative investigation used a methodological model, based on corporal mapping, interviews, and intertextualized analysis of 47 female students from Antofagasta in the mining zones of northern Chile.  ... see more

Monika Streule

In this article I draw on a theoretical-methodological discussion of urban studies in order to focus on the role transdisciplinarity plays in it. Beginning with a brief review of the difficulties that have plagued empirical urban studies over the years an... see more

Fernando Farías Olavarría

In this book the epistemologist of the social sciences Ulises TOLEDO NICKELS develops a reconstruction of a number of theoretical, epistemological, and methodological reflections and of  the findings of empirical research that, during the 20th centur... see more

Georg T. A. Krizmanics

"Trucos del oficio de investigador" [Tricks of the Trade] is a handbook on qualitative and quantitative social science methods in which 12 scientists intend to demystify social science research practices by sharing their "tricks" of their research practic... see more

Axel Philipps

Visualizations of knowledge are little used within the field of sociology. In his book "Visible Sociology," Gerald BECK seeks to understand the relationship between sociology and visualizations, to identify related problem areas, and to increase the aware... see more

Maja Suderland

With his 1,200+ page study of Robert Musil's novel "The Man Without Qualities," Norbert Christian Wolf has produced a book which many may assume is "unreadable" on account of its enormous size alone. As a work of literary studies, it certainly runs the ri... see more

Jeanine C. Evers,Christina Silver

This report on the First ATLAS.ti User Conference shares our impressions and experiences as longstanding ATLAS.ti users and trainers about the First ATLAS.ti User Conference in Berlin 2013. The origins, conceptual principles and development of the program... see more

Laura Kemmer,Philip Adebar,Malte Bergmann,Kornelia Ehrlich,Mira Freiermuth,Hendrik Jansen,René Kreichauf,Sandy Kühnel,Frank Müller,Tobias Nitsche,Knut Petzold,Johanna Vogel,Marian Günzel

During the 8th conference of the "Stadt, Raum, Architektur" [City, Space, Architecture] network, young researchers discussed the topics of diversity and plurality from disciplinary perspectives, ranging from social and spatial sciences to humanities. The ... see more

Soledad Martínez Labrín,Bruno Bivort Urrutia,Cristian Orellana Fonseca,Claudia Vásquez Rivas,Dámaris Opazo Vega,Juan Pablo Paredes

This report gives an account of the main topics discussed during the Third Qualitative Research Encounter, framed within the work of the Research Group: Gender, Citizenship, and Equity [Investigación Género, Ciudadanía y Equidad] at the University of Bio-... see more