Forum: Qualitative Social Research  

Dalal Alabbasi,Juup Stelma

New perspectives on education can emerge when the voices of teachers are articulated in the research process. This is especially the case in contexts where teachers' voices have not often been heard. In this article, we provide a data-driven exploration o... see more

May Chazan,Madeline Macnab

In this article, we reflect on the methodology of a digital storytelling workshop held in May 2016, gathering activists and academics across four generations to share and record their activist histories. Drawing on observational notes and participant feed... see more

Daniel Wade Clarke

While fathers seldom say "I love you" to their son(s), there is also acknowledgment that sons rarely say it to their father. Confessions of love are like notes in a melody of previous affirmations, so what is it like for a son to say it, especially if lar... see more

Angela Dew,Louisa Smith,Susan Collings,Isabella Dillon Savage

Arts-based methods reduce reliance on verbal communication. This makes them particularly useful for exploring sensitive and controversial topics, which can often be difficult to articulate verbally, and capturing the experiences and insights of marginalis... see more

Ilana Elkad-Lehman

In this article, I present my personal story as a teacher-educator who participated in a binational (Israeli-German) teaching project that investigated the reading processes of students belonging to the second and third post-Holocaust generations. The stu... see more

Loretta Fernandez

Qualitative interviewing is a method in which the interviewer directs the interviewee to answer specific research questions. In this article, I present an example of "Systemic Functional Linguistics" (SFL) analysis of an interview in which I investigated ... see more

Denise Gastaldo,Natalia Rivas-Quarneti,Lilian Magalhaes

In this article we review the literature on body-mapping (BM) as an approach to health research in order to systematize recent advancements and to contribute to its development. We conducted a critical narrative synthesis of the literature published until... see more

Glynis Rosamonde George,Erwin Selimos

In this article, we examine the use of a narrative approach to a community-based action research project that sought to support welcoming initiatives for immigrant newcomers in a mid-size city in Ontario, Canada. We employed a place-based lens to situate ... see more

Julian Hamann,Lisa Suckert

Though most sociological discourse analyses are concerned with inherently temporal research objects, temporality is rarely acknowledged from a methodological perspective. In this article we address this gap by making the methodological consequences of tem... see more

Marina Hennig,Aline Federmann

While previous research primarily focused on the general effect of academic cooperation networks, in this article we take a look at interactions of scientists with a view to gaining insights into the restrictions and opportunities in different relations. ... see more

Alasdair Jones

Against a backdrop of a growing interest in qualitative and mixed-method approaches to social network analysis (SNA) and the exploration of ego-networks, in this article I revisit the pioneering urban families research of the social anthropologist and psy... see more

Asli Kandemir,Richard Budd

There seems to be relatively little scholarship on the use of vignettes in qualitative research, despite their long-time application in these approaches. They appear to be a helpful tool for framing complex or sensitive topics, but there is also some disa... see more

Pia Kontos,Alisa Grigorovich

The commodification and corporatization of research within the academy, research institutes, and professional and political sectors has ignited much attention within the critical qualitative health field. Of particular concern is that the ascendance of ne... see more

Neill Korobov

A discourse analytic approach was used to examine how twenty young adult romantic couples (ages 19-26) employed criticisms and insinuations of infidelity in their natural unstructured interactions to indirectly and creatively pursue closeness. The researc... see more

Leticia Muñiz Terra

The process of data analysis in qualitative sociological research is often not fully described in papers reporting such research. This is also true for biographical approaches. In this article I present a number of ideas concerning the analytical procedur... see more

Megan Nguyen

The adoption of arts-based research methods is gaining popularity in health care yet few of these methods integrate the arts throughout the inquiry. Given that so much of the human experience is imbued with emotion and complexity, it would be counter-intu... see more

Christine Schmalenbach,Mechthild Kiegelmann

In the face of globalization, more and more researchers have multicultural and multilocal backgrounds. This creates both challenges and possibilities. When combined with conducting research in a context in which people have experienced high levels of soci... see more

Victoria Sherif

In this article, I explore the nature of secondary analysis and provide a brief history of the method. Qualitative secondary analysis is a relatively under-used method in education and the social sciences, often due to the lack of easily accessible, relev... see more

Gwenda van der Vaart,Bettina van Hoven,Paulus P.P. Huigen

This article contributes to the discussion on the value of creative and arts-based research methods to researchers interested in community resilience. Based on a participatory research project that used a mix of these methods conducted in a Dutch village,... see more

Elizabeth C. Watters,Sara Cumming,Lea Caragata

Although qualitative secondary analyses are conducted across the social sciences, supra-assorted analyses that involve both the re-use of existing data and the collection of new, primary data are relatively uncommon. Additionally, discussions regarding qu... see more

Alexandra Macht

In this article I argue that translation in cross-cultural research leads to the construction of a certain linguistic hierarchy, wherein the English language subordinates the Romanian language. I illustrate my arguments with examples from 47 qualitative i... see more

Andrea D. Bührmann,Yvonne Franke

Transdisciplinary research is gaining momentum within the German-speaking scientific community. We would like to present four anthologies on the topic and thus assess the field from a qualitative research perspective. The anthologies document the broad sp... see more

Colin Hastings,Leigha Comer,Eric Mykhalovskiy

Didier FASSIN's new edited collection brings together public anthropologists and sociologists who reflect on the challenges and stakes related to the dissemination, promotion, reception, and utilization of their ethnographic research. The book centers on ... see more

Marion Linska

The textbook "Reflexive Grounded Theory" was first published in 2009. In 2017 the third, completely revised and expanded edition was released. This is an accessible and reader-friendly work, understandable for beginners and inspiring for advanced research... see more

Oliver Berli,Daniel Bischur,Stefan Nicolae,Hilmar Schäfer

Valuation pertains to all realms of social life—from aesthetic judgments in everyday life to grading pupils in school, to the complex evaluation processes found in economic contexts. The conference "Cultures of Evaluation" drew on recent themes advanced b... see more

Irene Strasser,Sona Gazer,Marlene Märker,Till Manderbach,Bradley Fix,Theresa Zimmermann,Stephan Trautner,Yasa Genck,Julien Henninger

In 2017, the "Klagenfurter Herbstsymposium" [Klagenfurt Autumn Symposium] took place for the first time. The aim was to focus on different approaches within participatory research, to broadly discuss questions concerning the value and meaningfulness of qu... see more