By combining different methods, researchers can use the strengths of each to compensate the constraints of others and to more comprehensively examine their research topic. In this article, I elaborate upon the strengths and weaknesses of timelines and …
Research on the psychology of the Internet and social media (POISM) is characterized by a heavy methodological compartmentalization. In the current contribution we show empirically that 1. quantitative methods constitute the preferred gold standard of …
Based on a research project with refugee students, in this article we present three forms of „small“ biographical narratives that can be used as a methodological approach instead of the biographical-narrative interview: The first form, guided narrative…
In this contribution, I focus on nested sampling as it is applied in sequential quantitative-qualitative mixed methods research. The function of this design element is to integrate quantitative and qualitative data. I refer to a specific type of recomm…
Religion and sexual experience are deemed sensitive topics to research. I aim to elucidate how I used hairdressing as an activity during qualitative interviews to aid in researching the relationship between religious-cultural upbringing and women’s sex…
In this editorial, we introduce the FQS special issue „Mixed Methods and Multimethod Social Research—Current Applications and Future Directions“ by firstly considering changes and continuities in the field since the publication of FQS 2(1) on „Qualitat…
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…
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…
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…
In this contribution, I focus on nested sampling as it is applied in sequential quantitative-qualitative mixed methods research. The function of this design element is to integrate quantitative and qualitative data. I refer to a specific type of recomm…
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