20 articles in this issue
Steffen Amling,Alexander Geimer
Focusing on professional politics, we present and discuss possibilities for an empirical analysis of subjectivation based on the documentary method of interpretation. To this aim, the forms politicians appropriate or relate to normative expectations will ... see more
Niklas Barth,Antonius Schneider
In this article, we focus on interviews with general practitioners about their advanced training. While analyzing these interviews one can learn how motives can generally be narrated. This shows how the communication of contingency is a functional resourc... see more
Christian Bröer,Gerben Moerman,Johan Casper Wester,Liza Rubinstein Malamud,Lianne Schmidt,Annemiek Stoopendaal,Nynke Kruiderink,Christina Hansen,Hege Sjølie
Inspired by the potentials of web-based collaboration, in 2014, a group of social scientists, students and information specialists started tinkering with software and methodology for open online collaborative research. The results of their research led to... see more
Felicia Darling
With an example of a single study, I describe the strategic application of etic and emic approaches (in outsider research) to incorporate more insider perspectives. I introduce an iterative methodological model that instantiates the etic and emic theories... see more
Regula Fankhauser
In this article, I analyze teachers' experience of being observed by videography during their teaching. Although video cameras are widely used in educational research and teacher education, and although the possibilities and limitations of video research ... see more
Christian Herfter,Johanna Leicht
Exemplary interpretation of a text is impossible due to the significance of the linguistic sign which is always reliant on and rooted in the individual. Nonetheless, interpretation is a common joint praxis and so is the empirical question of how the proce... see more
Rachel Landy,Cathy Cameron,Anson Au,Debra Cameron,Kelly K. O'Brien,Katherine Robrigado,Larry Baxter,Lynn Cockburn,Shawna O'Hearn,Brent Oliver,Stephanie Nixon
Reflexivity involves the ability to understand how one's social locations and experiences of advantage or disadvantage have shaped the way one understands the world. The capacity for reflexivity is crucial because it informs clinical decisions, which can ... see more
Xavier Montagud Mayor
There is a need for an effective methodological strategy to sustain research on professional practice in the social services. The opposition between the autoethnographic work of Carolyn ELLIS and Arthur BOCHNER (2000, 2006) and the analytic proposal... see more
Hans Erik Næss
Due to its standing as the basic unit of analysis in ethnography, "the field" needs to be approached with precision. However, while there have been plenty of attempts to detach the concept from its historical relation with places and groups, there are few... see more
Jakub Niedbalski,Izabela Slezak
The application of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) in the field of qualitative sociology is becoming more popular. However, in Polish scientific research, the use of computer software to aid qualitative data analysis is uncom... see more
Tanja Paulitz,Susanne Kink,Bianca Prietl
On the basis of an empirical example, we offer in this article a methodological discussion of the challenges and pitfalls gender studies scholars face when analyzing how gender norms are attributed to epistemic cultures in science and engineering. Faced w... see more
Gabriele Rosenthal,Eva Bahl,Arne Worm
In this article, we aim to clarify the benefit of perspectives derived from biographical research and figurational sociology in attempts to understand and explain illegalized migration. In addition, we intend to discuss the methodological implications of ... see more
Michelle Salmona,Dan Kaczynski
In this article, we explore the learning experiences of doctoral candidates as they use qualitative data analysis software (QDAS). Of particular interest is the process of adopting technology during the development of research methodology. Using an action... see more
Christoph Stamann,Markus Janssen,Margrit Schreier
A variety of applications of qualitative content analysis can be found in the scientific literature. In this contribution we argue that this variety is the result of the sheer number of variations of qualitative content analysis and by the numerous modifi... see more
Sylvaine Tuncer
This article starts from the observation that social scientists using video to study naturally-occurring interactions are often questioned about the reliability of their data, by wider audiences, but also by scholars who raised concerns early on about how... see more
Caterine Galaz Valderrama,Laura Cristina Yufra
In this article, we analyze the practices and discourses of social interventions aimed at female immigrants in Spain. From the findings of four research projects we revealed differentiation processes (BRAH, 1992) and the emergence of systematic distinctio... see more
Hella von Unger,Hansjörg Dilger,Michael Schönhuth
In the German social and cultural sciences attention to research ethics is growing, with empirical researchers increasingly seeking advice and addressing ethical issues in their research practice. In addition, there is an infrastructural debate in this co... see more
Lucas Bietti
Jens BROCKMEIER's new book proposes a very provocative aim for memory studies: "[T]o radically re-think our very idea of memory and challenge the notions of remembering and forgetting that we have taken for granted" (p.vii). The main target for the author... see more
Charlotte Bruns,Matthias Sommer
This conference report summarizes different perspectives on the image as a sociological problem. During the conference, which was held in November 2015 at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities [Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut] in Essen, Ger... see more
Jasmin Wittkowski,Gregor Betz
Over recent years a variety of new types of events have emerged. One of their characteristics is the deliberate mixing and combination of different cultural areas. These hybrid phenomena are what the participants focused on at the international conference... see more