29 articles in this issue
Jo Reichertz
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1202E17
César A. Cisneros Puebla,Judith Davidson
Qualitative computing has been part of our lives for thirty years. Today, we urgently call for an evaluation of its international impact on qualitative research. Evaluating the international impact of qualitative research and qualitative computing require... see more
Nigel Fielding
The article considers the way that digital research technologies and online environments increasingly support new forms of qualitative research that have emerged as a result of new user groups taking up the practice of social research. New practitioners o... see more
Joan Miquel Verd,Sergio Porcel
Geographic information systems (GIS) have been used for many years to integrate social and territorial information in quantitative research, but only recently have they been used in qualitative research. Recent advances have allowed qualitative GIS to be ... see more
Martha de Alba
This article serves a dual purpose. On the one hand, I seek to understand social representations and the collective memory of a sample of older adults, resident in the metropolitan area of Mexico City. On the other hand, I wish to reflect on the methodolo... see more
Judith Davidson
Twenty-first century qualitative research is at a crossroads as it faces the double challenges of new technologies for conducting research and the powerful strand of interest in arts-based research (including memoir and autoethnography). The journal proje... see more
Rose Lema
In this essay on natural language I present a computer-supported study of words, sentences and hypertexts concerning bromatology (the study of food and drink) in a XVI century Maya-Spanish Calepin—the most complete and extended dictionary ever written on ... see more
Mauri Laukkanen
Causal (aka cognitive) mapping emerged in the late 1970s as an innovative method for capturing and analyzing political decision-makers' and organizational phenomenological and causal belief patterns. Since then, in particular comparative causal mapping (C... see more
Göklem Tekdemir Yurtdas
Repetitions are resources for maintaining intersubjectivity and collaborative meaning-making in talk. The aim of this study was to investigate repetitions in more detail in terms of types of repetitions (self–other) to determine the functions of repetitio... see more
Silvia Bénard
This article describes a unique mixing of grounded theory methodology (GTM) and autoethnographic methods in a study of the difficulties faced by individuals (of the professional class) moving from the cosmopolitan urban areas of Mexico to a middle-sized, ... see more
Jürgen Budde
The term diversity [German: "Heterogenität"] is being increasingly used in school pedagogics; although its functions and applications are far from clear. In this paper I consider the "speaking about heterogeneity" on the basis of a discourse analysis of i... see more
Samuel Colón De La Rosa,Nicole Vélez-Agosto,David López-Garay,Carlos Rivera-Santana
Qualitative psychology has been co-opted by institutions that represent scientific rationality inherited from modernity (with its emphases on observation, measurement, and control). A process of cooptation involves an assimilationist attitude of ownership... see more
Barry Cooper,Judith Glaesser
Charles RAGIN's work, especially his development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), offers social scientists a way of bringing together the strengths of the qualitative and quantitative traditions. QCA takes a case-based rather than a variable-bas... see more
Marcela Cornejo,Carolina Besoaín,Mariela Carmona,Ximena Faúndez,Francisca Mendoza,María José Carvallo,Francisca Rojas,Alejandra Manosalva
The focus of this study was Chilean researchers who use social qualitative methods in their research processes. An attempt was made to understand the formation and development of their careers as researchers, the specificities of their research practices,... see more
Huyen Dam,John Eyles
This article explores the meaning of place and home among Vietnamese refugees now settled in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: a situation shared by the first author. We begin with a review of the meaning of place and home and their possible implications for thi... see more
Bernd Dollinger,Monika Urban
The aim of this contribution is to discuss analysis of interdiscourse and collective symbols as an opportunity for social research. Interdiscursivity focuses on integration and dissemination of knowledge and, thus, applies to a key question of social scie... see more
Erika Goble,Wendy Austin,Denise Larsen,Linda Kreitzer,E. Sharon Brintnell
When Marshall McLUHAN famously stated "the medium is the message," he was echoing Martin HEIDEGGER's assertion that through our use of technology we can become functions of it. Therefore, how does adopting computer-assisted qualitative data analysis softw... see more
Darren Langdridge,Meg Barker,Paula Reavey,Paul Stenner
In this article we aim to contribute to psychosocial debates around selfhood by focusing empirically upon memories of jealousy and the ways in which potential subjectivities are both opened up and closed down. The paper presents a phenomenological narrati... see more
Wolff-Michael Roth,Luis Radford,Lionel LaCroix
This article focuses on the experiences of two researchers, Wolff-Michael ROTH and Luis RADFORD, using cultural-historical activity theory in mathematics education. The aim is to provide insights into the ways these researchers see and engage with activit... see more
Nicole Bögelein,Kathia Esperanza Serrano-Velarde
How does the process of standardizing academic degrees throughout Europe (the so-called Bologna reform) mediate the teaching of qualitative methods in undergraduate courses? Are there ways of ensuring that contextualized teaching modes for qualitative met... see more
Niklas Alexander Chimirri
In the investigation of human everyday life, the significance of the material still tends to be neglected. The anthology edited by KONTOPODIS and NIEWÖHNER presents contributions that draw on relational-materialist concepts in order to praxiographically s... see more
Michalis Kontopodis
At the conclusion of his in-depth discussion of the theoretical, epistemological and methodological aspects of our book "The Self as Network" (KONTOPODIS & NIEWÖHNER, 2010), Niklas Alexander Chimirri (2012) raises a question that we could not have address... see more
Stephan Humer
The anthology "Überwachungspraxen – Praktiken der Überwachung" [Surveillance Practices—Practices of Surveillance] evolved from the University of Hamburg's research project "Konsum(kontroll)technologien" [Consumption Control Technologies], and is dedicated... see more
Torsten Junge
Everyday knowledge in the "knowledge society" is becoming increasingly relevant and commonplace. Due to the importance of biomedical research to the average individual, forms of participation in discussions are sought on the subject of bioethical issues. ... see more
Jan Kruse,Kay Biesel,Christian Schmieder
Rudolf SCHMITT is a distinguished expert in German-speaking academia on comprehensive and focused metaphor analysis as a specific method of qualitative data analysis. SCHMITT compares the methodological procedures suggested in our book with other approach... see more
Dirk vom Lehn
Over recent years, the new sociology of knowledge has become increasingly interested in issues and debates about the ways in which the body features in people's actions and experience of the social world—debates that over the past two decades have also ar... see more
Lisa Pfahl,Johanna Hess
Based on the theories of Judith BUTLER, Michel FOUCAULT, and Karl MARX, Hanna MEIßNER analyzes the historical, legal and social conditions of the emergence of subjectivity. She establishes a critical understanding of human autonomy and the potential of pr... see more
Larissa Schindler
Julia REUTER's latest book, "Geschlecht und Körper" [Gender and Body], contains ten studies on these two central concepts in sociology, as well as lending consideration to visuality and otherness. The author focuses on theories of performance, discourse a... see more
Marian Günzel,Benjamin Fehling,Christian Pietzek,Andreas Womelsdorf,Sebastian Völker
In the summer of 2010, the "Discourse Theory in Human Geography" working group organized a summer school entitled "Discourse and Space" at the Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. The aim was to provide an int... see more