Archiv für Januar 2015

Becomings: Narrative Entanglements and Microsociology

In this article, I look back in an art/research experiment of convening an exhibition of women artists and inviting them to a round-table discussion in the context of a sociological conference. The artists who took part in this event had been previousl…

Review: Udo Kuckartz (2014). Mixed Methods. Methodologie, Forschungsdesigns und Analyseverfahren [Mixed Methods. Methodology, Research Designs and Methods of Data Analysis]

Udo KUCKARTZ has provided a German introduction into „mixed methods,“ tying into an Anglo-American discourse with a particularly practical orientation. The book discusses the development of mixed methods, important definitions, conceptual connections, …

Kultura Liberalna | 308-312 (2014)

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/kulturaliberalna/issue/2015-01-27.html

Educated Girls, Absent Grooms, and Runaway Brides: Narrating Social Change in Rural Bangladesh

This article explores the folk legend as one articulation of the social control of women in rural Bangladesh. Stories and legends emerged when women were interviewed about the effects of men leaving the village for wage-based jobs in cities and abroad….

Let them Feed him Biscuits: Doing Fieldwork in Fiji with the Family

Embarking on fieldwork in a country and culture that is foreign to oneself will always present challenges alongside the wonderful learning opportunities. Bringing the family along for the ride increases both sides of that equation. This narrative artic…

She Pushed Me, and I Flew: A Duoethnographical Story From Supervisors in Flight

Sometimes the different versions of a story should not be reduced to a single „truth,“ although it is often the role of researchers to do just that. Duoethnography is a methodology that allows multiple views of the same event(s) to be examined, each fr…

Justifying the Authentic Self. Swedish Public Service Workers Talking About Work Stress

This study is based on in-depth interviews with 28 Swedish public service workers. With the help of narrative analysis, we explore how the workers use language to explain their subjective experiences of work stress. Based on a three-level typology, thi…

Researching One’s Own Field. Interaction Dynamics and Methodological Challenges in the Context of Higher Education Research

In contrast to quantitative approaches, where interaction effects are usually regarded as errors or disruption, we understand interviews as social situations and the interaction dynamics between interviewee and interviewer as constitutive for data coll…

The system of textbook approval in Poland under communist rule (1944–1989) as a tool of power of the regime

10.1080/00309230.2014.997756<br/>Joanna Wojdon

Osteuropa | 9-10/2014

Gefährliche Unschärfe Russland, die Ukraine und der Krieg im Donbass