Forum: Qualitative Social Research  

Diana Amber,Jesús Domingo

Those unemployed and over 45 years of age represent a social group that is suffering with special intensity in the current Spanish economic crisis. It is silenced by the mass media. This social invisibility reduces their chances of reintegration into the ... see more

Beata Arcimowicz,Katarzyna Cantarero,Emilia Soroko

This article presents findings of qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with a group of "frequent liars" and another of "rare liars" who provided their subjective perspectives on the phenomenon of lying. Participants in this study previously ... see more

Paula Bleckmann,Nadine Jukschat

We aim to build a new theory of highly committed problematic video gaming based on rich qualitative data and to compare it to existing theories. To do this, we used hermeneutic analytical methods and grounded theory methodology to analyze 125 hours of rec... see more

Lynn Froggett,Julian Manley,Alastair Roy

The visual matrix is a method for researching shared experience, stimulated by sensory material relevant to a research question. It is led by imagery, visualization and affect, which in the matrix take precedence over discourse. The method enables the sym... see more

Roderick G. Galam

This article reflects on the epistemological, methodological, and ethical issues related to undertaking a cross-gender research (male researcher with female participants) in one's own community. It also examines issues of analysis and representation germa... see more

Vanesa Garbero

In this article, I reflect on the development of fieldwork, exploring aspects that are related to my subjectivity, as the "knower," in the research process. It is a writing exercise framed within the literary-scientific subgenre called autoethnography, wh... see more

Teresa García-Merino,Hugo Alberto Rivera Rodríguez,Valle Santos-Álvarez

Resilience, defined here as the ability to recover from a setback, is used in business management as a way to face speed of change and the complexity and limited availability of information in a corporate environment. Business resilience refers to the dyn... see more

Candice Groenewald,Arvin Bhana

This article describes the usability of a retrospective data collection tool called the lifegrid (LG) in exploring adolescent substance abuse from the perspective of mothers and their substance abusing adolescent. We found the LG approach useful in buildi... see more

Sepali Guruge,Michaela Hynie,Yogendra Shakya,Arzo Akbari,Sheila Htoo,Stella Abiyo

This article presents the findings from a community-based qualitative study that utilized an arts-informed method to understand the changes in refugee youth's roles and responsibilities in the family within the (re)settlement context in Canada. The study ... see more

Stefan Hirschauer,Anika Hoffmann,Annekathrin Stange

In this article, we suggest considering the method of interviewing couples as a form of participant observation. To assume that interviewees are mere "informants" who provide "information" neglects the fact that an interview is a specific social situation... see more

Ping-Chun Hsiung

Over the last decade, qualitative researchers have begun to challenge the domination and universalistic claims of the Global North. Nevertheless, it is still unclear what pursuing qualitative research (QR) from the Global South might entail. I advance thi... see more

Diane Patricia Ketelle,Lucas Ketelle

This research describes aspects of the life story of a professional junior middle-weight boxer. We conducted this inquiry in an urban boxing gym in the United States. Five extensive interviews were collected and analyzed through a life story interview met... see more

Sarah K. Knudson

Many universities internationally now make concerted efforts to promote curriculum development and classroom and campus cultures that recognize diversity in student viewpoints and life experiences. Increasingly, these efforts have involved promoting recog... see more

Stephanie Bettina Linek,Klaus Tochtermann

This article describes a multi-method approach for usability testing. The approach combines paper prototyping and think-aloud with two supplemental methods: advanced scribbling and a handicraft task. The method of advanced scribbling instructs the partici... see more

Isabella Lussi,Stephan Gerhard Huber

Value development is seen as an important task in adolescence. In addition to the family of origin, school is an important socializing institution. However, little is known about how school influences the value development process. Based on 20 narrative i... see more

Tomas Marttila

Post-foundational discourse analysis, also labeled as Essex School in Discourse Analysis, has been observed to suffer from a considerable methodological deficit that limits its applicability in empirical research. The principal aim of this article is to o... see more

Fraser Mitchell

Secondary analysis of data is seen as a way of maximising the utility of existing research in a non-intrusive way and provides an efficient research strategy at a time of financial constraint. However, there are few examples from the published literature ... see more

Hans Pongratz,Thomas Birken

Applied research is confronted with a twofold challenge: the necessity  to develop innovative procedures, applications, and products, and the need to implement these in practice. In this context, research on the acceptance of technology and participa... see more

Rodrigo Ramalho,Peter Adams,Peter Huggard,Karen Hoare

In grounded theory research it is commonly discouraged to conduct a literature review before data collection and analysis. Engaging with the literature about the researched area in that stage of the research is described as a constraining exercise rather ... see more

Jo Reichertz

In the article, I explore researchers' subjectivity and it's marginalization in the social sciences, especially in sociology. Based on a review of the research in which researchers' subjectivity plays a role, I will briefly give an overview of their diffe... see more

Gabriela Rubilar Donoso

I discuss the methodological process of reconstructing and analyzing the research testimonies of 43 Chilean social workers. They work in universities located in the capital and four cities in the south of Chile. The focus is to analyze the process of self... see more

Martin Vetter

In Switzerland, psychomotor therapists are integrated into special education classrooms. However, many feel insecure regarding their effectiveness with students in certain situations. Consequently, they question their therapeutic approaches and value syst... see more

Werner Vogd,Jonathan Harth,Ulrike Selma Ofner

From the pragmatist viewpoint, as first formulated by John DEWEY following William JAMES, religiousness must be understood less as a specific kind of experience than as an "adjustment" towards an epistemic perspective that throws a different light on all ... see more

Brady Wagoner

In this article, I explore the meaning of experiments in early twentieth century psychology, focusing on the qualitative experimental methodology of psychologist Frederic BARTLETT. I begin by contextualizing BARTLETT's experiments within the continental r... see more

Sharon Walker

The intention of this article is to invite readers to explore and understand how literature reviews can be conducted from a systemic and dialogical approach. After reading a paper by MONTUORI (2005), I considered how literature reviews could be situated s... see more

Elias Zill

The challenge of cultural education is to initiate aesthetic experiences in a target audience. But how can these experiences become the object of empirical research? In this article, I describe a number of fundamental theoretical aspects of aesthetic expe... see more

Kyle Elizabeth Miller

Photography serves as an important tool for researchers to learn about the contextualized lives of individuals. This article explores the process of integrating photo elicitation interviews (PEI) into research involving children and families. Much literat... see more

Wolff-Michael Roth

Much qualitative research involves the analysis of verbal data. Although the possibility to conduct qualitative research in a rigorous manner is sometimes contested in debates of qualitative/quantitative methods, there are scholarly communities within whi... see more

Tony E. Adams

In "Staring at the Park: A Poetic Autoethnographic Inquiry" (2015), Jane SPEEDY uses poetry, drawings, and prose to offer an insider account of a stroke and post-stroke experience. In this review, I use both form and content to convey key ideas from Jane ... see more

Felix Anderl

In this review, I argue that this textbook edited by BENNETT and CHECKEL is exceptionally valuable in at least four aspects. First, with regards to form, the editors provide a paragon of how an edited volume should look: well-connected articles "speak to"... see more

Oliver Berli

The study "Dicksein" [Beeing fat] by Eva BARLÖSIUS (2014) investigates the manifold relations between body and society. To accomplish this she analyzes the experiences and knowledge of "fat" adolescents and their parents as well as health promotion expert... see more

Marie-Cécile Bertau

The book "Das dialogische Selbst" [Dialogical Self] by Frank-M. Staemmler (2015) is an important contribution to a dialogic view on human beingness formulated by several scholars as an alternative to methodological individualism. The connection between a ... see more

Hannah Sophie Rosenberg

Discourse studies is an interdisciplinary field which has become increasingly important in recent years and has been developed as an established research perspective at the intersection of language and society, of knowledge and power. This research perspe... see more

Cindy Ballaschk

This article offers insights into the agenda and themes covered at the Spring School 2015 conference "The Sociology of Knowledge: Approaches to Discourse Analysis & Further Perspectives on Discourse Research" held in Augsburg. Over 3 days, 30 participants... see more

Jeanette Böhme,Helmut Bremer,Fabian Kessl,Nicolle Pfaff,Anja Tervooren

Qualitative research in the fields of education, social work, and youth and childhood studies has become established in recent years and produced a range of currently dominant approaches, calling for a systematic analysis of qualitative research methods. ... see more