vol. 24, n°2 | 2021 – Varia
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Articles
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Prix Herman Diederiks 2019/Herman Diederiks Prize 2019
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Forgotten Rebellions: American Penal Radicalism Between the World Wars [Texte intégral disponible en février 2023]
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La « paix des dames » : le rôle des veuves des victimes d’homicides, un facteur de pacification des mœurs ? [Texte intégral disponible en février 2023]
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Hanged Bodies and Melancholic Minds [Texte intégral disponible en février 2023]
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« Sois toujours soumise et obéissante envers tes supérieurs » [Texte intégral disponible en février 2023]
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Between Leniency and Severity [Texte intégral disponible en février 2023]
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Books received
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A A Realist Approach, Research Design and Engagement in Supporting Researchers. Joseph Maxwell in Conversation With Mechthild Kiegelmann
In conversation with Mechthild KIEGELMANN, Joseph MAXWELL talked about his academic pathway. MAXWELL mentioned biographical phases such as being lost in the field as a young scholar of anthropology, working as a researcher in medical education, teaching at Harvard or getting tenure at George Mason University where he worked for 20 years. He introduced key milestones of his work: his design model, realist approach or validity in qualitative research and generalization. MAXWELL talked about important colleagues and commented on overcome divides between quantitative and qualitative positions. Readers get a glance of his passion about philosophy. His humility and commitment to teaching shone through.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/4070
Transgressing the Linguistic Domain: The Transformative Power of Images in Magnus Hirschfeld’s Sexological Work
Transgender individuals have historically faced exclusion from social research, a systemic issue rooted in a lack of historical information. However, a comprehensive understanding of contemporary transness necessitates examining its history. In this article, I address early forms of visual representation of transness by focusing on HIRSCHFELD's sexological work on intermediate sex categories at the beginning of the 20th century. The objective of this article is twofold. Firstly, I examine visual methods derived from discourse analysis and grounded theory methodology for analyzing and interpreting images as cultural documents. Secondly, I apply a discourse-analytical research perspective and follow suggestions made by CLARKE (2005) to explore the influence of images on the development of discourse on transness. By demonstrating the diverse meanings conveyed through HIRSCHFELD's image use, which sometimes differ significantly from his written work, I illustrate that images have the potential to shape and transform social knowledge production beyond the linguistic domain. I conclude with suggestions for advancing methods in the field of visual sociology.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3975
Flipping the Script in Higher Education: Teaching Qualitative Methods in Geography With Flipped Classroom and Research-Oriented Learning
In this article, I introduce concepts in higher education for teaching qualitative methods in the social sciences, namely flipped classroom and research-oriented learning, and I exemplify and discuss their application to research questions in geography. By integrating both concepts into an undergraduate lecture, I challenge higher education teaching practices in two ways: I prioritize the construction of knowledge by students over my own instruction, and I continuously involve students as peer teachers throughout the teaching and learning process. In the article, I describe the disciplinary and institutional contexts of qualitative method training in geography and argue for a reversal of traditional teaching practices. I then present the teaching and learning assessment step by step in order to make the process more transparent and to allow others to implement it in a similar manner. Finally, I discuss success factors for realizing the flipped classroom and research-oriented learning. Based on my own experience with these challenging concepts, I have come to assume that self-directed students will benefit while those who require more guidance may need additional support from the instructor to prevent them from being disadvantaged by the didactics of the course.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/4074
Problem-Centered Interviews Online and Offline: A Methodological Reflection
In this paper, I reflect on the transfer of problem-centered interviews to a digital setting. I will compare 26 online interviews with six face-to-face interviews, elaborating on respective advantages and disadvantages. The reflection is based on the specific characteristics of problem-centered interviews as well as criteria of qualitative research. Opportunities and limitations of online interviews are discussed, and I will give recommendations for future research which can help conducting problem-centered interviews online. The field phase showed that online situations can be effective for problem-centered interviews and could even strengthen research premises. The shift from problem-centered interviews to a digital setting should also be considered, and needs to be adapted to the interviewees and the research focus.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3977
Autoethnography in the Vicinity of Death. Sociological Work on and With Challenging Identification Processes
Working thanatosociologically means being scientifically confronted with dying, death and/or bereavement, which does not leave researchers' affected life untouched. We would like to use the FQS Debate We Are Talking About Ourselves to provide insights into social science research in the vicinity of death. To this end, we present ethnographic studies to elucidate specifics of field contouring, field access, and field research in the context of finiteness issues. In addition, we present autoethnographic vignettes in which we problematize concrete thanatosociological works. What does it mean to write an article about dying when dealing with an experience of loss? How do you maintain a distanced relationship with the phenomenon of dying children when you hear the children in the neighbourhood play? And how do you deal with the analysis of a killing video whose main characters are reminiscent of your own family? The biographically inspired texts are intended to highlight moments of lifeworld that are always part of scientific work and can produce special evocations in the vicinity of death.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/4065