Forum: Qualitative Social Research  

Pedro F. Bendassolli

The problem of induction refers to the difficulties involved in the process of justifying experience-based scientific conclusions. More specifically, inductive reasoning assumes a leap from singular observational statements to general theoretical statemen... see more

Laura Bisaillon,Janet Rankin

Discussion and analysis of characteristics and tensions associated with fieldwork in two projects using institutional ethnography is the focus of this article. Examined in comparison with each other, the first exemplar explores the organization of the Can... see more

Carrie Coltart,Karen Henwood,Fiona Shirani

Recent debates in qualitative secondary analysis (QSA) have sought to move beyond polarising arguments in order to develop more nuanced perspectives on the epistemological, analytical and practical opportunities and challenges associated with its methods.... see more

Félix Díaz,Natalia Solano Pinto,Irene Solbes

In this article, we propose a qualitative approach to the study of the ways in which people face good and poor health issues. During the last 30 years, Prochaska and DiClemente's "trans-theoretical model" (1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1992) has gained relevanc... see more

Regula Fankhauser

In the last few years videography has been used for research on classroom teaching. The methodological discussion accompanying the development of this technique centres on the question of the invasiveness and influence of filming on instructors and studen... see more

Manuela Ferrari,Gail McVey,Joanna Anneke Rummens

The influence of urbanization, modernization and acculturation processes as causes for the development of body image concerns and eating disorders are documented in the literature. Women exposed to a Western idea of "beauty" as skinny and thin may be more... see more

Sandra Guenter

Apart from nutrition and media consumption, sport and exercise play a central role in the educational discourse on health and well-being within German-speaking countries. In this paper I consider the "governmentality functions" (FOUCAULT, 2004a, 2004b) of... see more

Rahel Heeg

Little is known about physically violent behavior in female adolescents (especially in German speaking countries). Problem-centered interviews with 21 Swiss girls who regularly use(d) physical violence were conducted. The study is based on  grounded ... see more

Rachel M. Hershberg,M. Brinton Lykes

This exploratory narrative inquiry examines the lives of four Central American females with one or more U.S.-based undocumented migrant parents. Each participant is between 10 and 16 years old and is part of a transnational family living between the U.S. ... see more

Ileana Desirée Ibáñez,Cecilia Michelazzo

In this article we share reflections on a photography workshop carried out with a group of young people living in a poor  neighborhood. A workshop was chosen as research methodology due to the need to explore alternative ways of expression (different... see more

Sofia Lampropoulou,Greg Myers

Researchers in several disciplines have argued that a social science interview should be seen as a product of situated interaction, rather than as the elicitation of the interviewee's pre-existing cognitive state. We propose an approach for analysis of th... see more

Linda Liu,Jennifer Lapum,Suzanne Fredericks,Terrence Yau,Vaska Micevski

In this article, we highlight the use of music as an interpretive lens to understand patients' experiences of discharge following open-heart surgery. We adopted an arts-informed narrative methodology and interviewed participants at 1 and 4-6 weeks followi... see more

Evangelos Manolas,John Hockey,Michael Littledyke

This natural history of an environmentalist uses autoethnography through biographical interview to investigate the contextual analysis of influences affecting active pro-sustainability behavior, which is interpreted as environmentalism. Education for sust... see more

Christa Markom

Only a few anthropologists have conducted "anthropology at home" on racism and discussed their problems during research afterwards. Working on and with "offenders at home" can lead to challenges within the field and during the analysis. The objective of t... see more

Orla McGarry,Brian William McGrath

This article is based on research among a group of Muslim youth living in the west of Ireland as part of a study on "social belonging" and identity. One part of the research involved designing a youth centered, participatory research method, in the form o... see more

Katalin Eszter Morgan,Elizabeth Henning

This article describes the process by which a five-dimensional tool for history textbook analysis was conceptualized and developed in three stages. The first stage consisted of a grounded theory approach to code the content of the sampled chapters of the ... see more

Claudia Scheid

The analysis of children's drawings allows a discussion of the constitution of pictures. It helps to criticize existing sociological methods of image analysis, which are based on Erwin PANOFSKY's famous article "Ikonographie und Ikonologie" (1975 [1932]).... see more

Gail Simon

This article introduces relational ethnography as a form of inquiry which emphasizes reflexive dialogical aspects of research relationships. I have found the use of autoethnography inspiring in speaking from within my practice as a therapist and teacher h... see more

Frank Sowa

In the 1990s social and cultural studies explored different perceptions of nature expressed within the categories of "nation" and "culture". Similar results are seen in international studies on whaling. In academic and public discourses on the subject of ... see more

Christian Stegbauer

The article focuses on the way events are connected with preceding events of the same type carrying out a participatory observation on a golden wedding celebrated in a small village in the middle of Germany. Events are formally connected by their particip... see more

Rebekka Streck,Ursula Unterkofler,Anja Reinecke-Terner

When writing ethnographic fieldnotes researchers confront specific practical research challenges. They have to continually decide what to describe, in which words, and to what extent. In this article we focus on this selection process, which is inevitable... see more

Elena Wiesler,Sonja Wahl,Gabriele Lucius-Hoene,Michael Berner

In the present study we investigated pregaming as a specific and thus far scarcely researched drinking practice. Previous research on pregaming showed that it is associated with several risks. In the context of our study we conducted eight group discussio... see more

Julia Böcker,Alexander Leistner

In the early 1990s East Germany was characterized by massive social and individual changes. During this period numerous communes were founded as a social experiment to establish an alternative way of life. Since free formation had been harshly restricted ... see more

Rainer Diaz-Bone

With the (German translation) of the volume "Situational Analysis" by Adele CLARKE, a new approach to the development of Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM) is presented. CLARKE radicalizes the methodological standpoint of classical pragmatism. She integrat... see more

Stephan Lorenz

SENNETT presents the second part of his projected trilogy. Here the abilities and skills of craftwork serve as an example of strengthened cooperation in modern societies. The essay discusses SENNETTs dialogic writing, his understanding of cooperation as a... see more

Axel Philipps

The book "Curiosity-driven Disciplines. The Professional Habitus in Empirical Research" by Andreas FRANZMANN examines the professionalization of science and its influence on research practices. The empirical section presents scientists' commitment and the... see more