In March 2019, the German DIY store chain Hornbach published on the online video hosting platform YouTube, an advertisement named „The Smell of Spring.“ The video led to a heated online debate and triggered a transnational wave of indignation in variou…
Social laboratories for testing policy instruments in the public space have become increasingly popular over the last decade. In the volumes reviewed here, the authors evaluated a series of social laboratories initiated in Baden-Wurttemberg. Both volum…
The evolution of gender relations illustrates both a growing equality between males and females and, yet, a persistence of male dominance. Marriage is therein ascribed perpetuating effects. The choice of the surname at marriage allows the analysis of t…
In the past few years, practice theories have been increasingly employed within social scientific research on the environment and sustainability. Thereby, researchers have not only illustrated the valuable insights that can be made, based on these theo…
In this article, I argue for an updating of the transatlantic reception of ethnography with the aid of a thick description of the current ethnographic landscape in the USA. Ethnographers working in the interactional Chicago School are facing an essenti…
In this article, I consider writing by research participants as a method of gathering data on sensitive, difficult or shameful topics. In doing so, I draw on the example of a research project on family narratives and family secrets. Gathering data on h…
The career officers of East Germany’s secret police, the Ministry for State Security (MfS), is regarded to have been the most aggressive defender of the regime’s political ideology. Although historians repeatedly assert that this group was very robustl…
Ambiguity and indexicality of utterances are key challenges in qualitative research. In this article we propose „logical condensation“ as a novel approach to this challenge. Logical condensation reduces a text to its propositional structure. This techn…
In this article, I discuss moralizations as attitudes and habits of valuation. As I reconstructed the implicit knowledge in narratives about professional case work, these kind of moralizations became apparent. My data include interviews with federal po…
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