Forum: Qualitative Social Research  

Iben Charlotte Aamann

This article is a study of how class is produced in research encounters as matters of morality. I engage various class perspectives, arguing that class today occurs in subtle ways, being lived as judgments and struggles around moral authorization. I draw ... see more

Natalia Albornoz Muñoz,Rodrigo Cornejo Chávez,Jenny Assaél Budnik

The bond between teacher and student, which involves feelings and emotions, is fundamental to the educational process and is embedded in social, historical and structural elements. Considering this, the purpose of our research was to understand the discou... see more

Ben Barry

In this article, I investigate the processes, benefits and dilemmas of producing a fashion show as a method of dissemination in arts-informed qualitative research. I examine a project that used a fashion show to analyze and represent interview findings ab... see more

Elaine Campbell

Online hostility and mockery, often known as "trolling," is a phenomenon almost as old as the internet itself. Nevertheless, the rise in trolling aimed at researchers using non-traditional, creative methodologies, such as autoethnography, remains severely... see more

Marianne Daher,David Carré,Andrea Jaramillo,Himmbler Olivares,Alemka Tomicic

The relevance of experience and meaning in qualitative research is mostly accepted and is common ground for qualitative studies. However, there is an increasing trend towards trivializing the use of these notions. As a consequence, a mechanistic use of th... see more

Anna Denejkina

Exo-autoethnography is the autoethnographic exploration of a history whose events the researcher does not experience directly, but a history that impacts the researcher through familial, or other personal connections, by proxy. It is an approach to resear... see more

Carolina Ferrante,Jimena Silva

In this article, we analyze the role of hegemonic masculinity in adaptive sports for persons with motor disabilities in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hegemonic masculinity represents an ideal of manhood in which men construct their gender identity. In order to... see more

Marita Haas,Sabine T. Koeszegi

The social-constructivist theory of doing gender has not only been established in feminist and sociological discourse over the last decades, but has also attained importance in organization theory. The social and interactive production of gender is contex... see more

Helen Johnson,Emily Carson-Apstein,Simon Banderob,Xander Macaulay-Rettino

Arts-based research approaches, such as poetic inquiry and autoethnography, are attracting interest for their ability to engage wide-ranging audiences with creative, emotive, and thought-provoking outputs. In this article, we discuss a new method, which d... see more

York Kautt

My contribution focuses on grounded theory methodology (GTM) as a methodology and method of analyzing visual communication. In addition to existing GTM concepts, which link the topic of visibility to actor-related practices, the question of how GTM can be... see more

Nicolas Legewie

Combining qualitative data and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) holds great analytic potential because it allows for detailed insights into social processes as well as systematic cross-case comparisons. But despite many applications, continuous meth... see more

Mariana Loreta Magallanes Udovicich,Agustín Zanotti

The last fifteen years have seen the emergence of internet studies. Among the issues and opportunities this raises is the possibility to do virtual ethnography, involving redefinitions of fieldwork: the connections between online and offline relations, im... see more

Glenis Mark,Amohia Boulton

In this article, we discuss Indigenous epistemology that ensures research is inclusive of Maori cultural values, such as collectivity and storytelling. We explain an adapted photovoice methodology used in research investigating Maori (the Indigenous peopl... see more

Jayne Pitard

For a reader to trust the perspective of a researcher as presented in qualitative inquiry, the disclosure of the researcher's position in relation to the data is vital. Who am I in relation to the research? becomes the central tenet in disclosing the posi... see more

Karen Ross

In this article, I explore methodological approaches to the research process that can potentially empower research participants. I examine empowerment as it arises in the context of specific interactions between researcher and participant within the resea... see more

Daniela Schiek

In research on the intergenerational transmission of poverty, life paths are largely defined by what the individuals have learned in childhood. Little research on this topic assumes the possibility of permanent interaction processes, which preserve experi... see more

Roberta Lynn Woodgate,Melanie Zurba,Pauline Tennent

In this article we outline the creation of boundary objects as just one of the means to communicate the results of the Youth's Voices research study that sought to understand young people's experiences of living with anxiety. Fifty-eight young people livi... see more

Bettina Kleiner,Cornelia Dinsleder

The interdisciplinary conference "Gender Studies Meets Discourse Studies Meets Gender Studies: Entanglements, Affinities, Tensions, and Open Questions" focused on the relationship between gender studies and discourse studies. On the one hand this essay pr... see more