James Cowles Prichard and the Linguistic Foundations of Ethnology
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 76-91, March 2023.
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Challenges of Multimethod and Mixed Methods Designs in Museum Research
In this article, we draw on two research projects on museums to present how we combined qualitative and quantitative methods (e.g. semi-structured interviews, non-standardised observations, focused ethnographies, ethnographic observations and conversat…
Qualitative Social Research at a Distance: Potentials and Challenges of Virtual Interviews
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the practice of qualitative interviewing has recently undergone a strong trend toward virtualization. The gold standard of conducting face-to-face interviews had to be translated into a digital format, enabling research…
Mixing Standardized Administrative Data and Survey Data With Qualitative Content Analysis in Longitudinal Designs: Perceptions of Justified Pensions and Related Life Courses
Citizens are more likely to accept reforms of welfare state arrangements if they perceive them as just and reasonable. However, the concept of social justice is multidimensional. For instance, in discourses on old-age security, justice is addressed in …
„I Took the Photograph Just to Show You a Little Bit of Perspective“: Photo-Elicitation Interviewing With Family Caregivers in the Dementia Context
Photo-elicitation interviewing (PEI) is a well-known approach in qualitative inquiry. Yet existing literature lacks sufficient information on participants‘ perspectives on using photographs to explicate their experiences and ways in which their capture…
Mixed Methods Longitudinal Research
Longitudinal research holds great promise for researching change and continuity. Qualitative and quantitative longitudinal research can be combined within a mixed methods framework, which enables gaining complementary insights that are more nuanced and…
Telling the History of Social Sciences Performatively: Background and Genesis of the Webcomic „Pragmatism Reloaded. The Settlers of Chicago“
With performative social science, questions of science communication and of subject matter appropriateness take on new meaning. We illustrate this in this article by examining the creative process and background of the webcomic „Pragmatism Reloaded. Th…
„You Know Now—Talk About It!“ Decolonial Research Perspectives and Missions Assigned in the Research Field
Global relationships of unequal power are perpetuated by academic knowledge production. The latter clearly reflect epistemic violence as well as geopolitical (im)balances of power and knowledge. Decolonializing forms of academic knowledge production an…