Mai 30, 2023, 12:00 am,
Annie B. Friedrich, Jessica Mozersky, James M. DuBois,
Allgemein.
There is a growing trend in social science research to share qualitative data in a repository for others to access. However, some researchers are reticent to share qualitative data. One major concern is how to de-identify qualitative data while maintaining adequate contextual detail to allow secondary users to meaningfully interpret de-identified data. To help inform discussions regarding qualitative data sharing, we reviewed 100 qualitative health science studies to determine what potentially identifying variables (PIVs) are reported in the published literature. There are relatively few PIVs reported in each qualitative study; the majority of studies (n=64) reported two or fewer PIVs. The most commonly reported PIVs were profession, sex or gender, and age. Our findings can help guide de-identification efforts going forward as presumably the PIVs that are most commonly reported provide essential contextual details that will also be needed by secondary users, while PIVs that are rarely reported may not provide essential contextual information for interpretation of data. This suggests it is possible to share qualitative data that are both de-identified and useful for secondary analysis. As data are shared, we recommend researchers mask study sites, as these may uniquely increase the chance of re-identification.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3965
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Mai 30, 2023, 12:00 am,
Marc J. Bubeck, Bianca Jansky,
Allgemein.
The consideration of materiality is an essential component of the social sciences of the 21st century. For empirical social research, this poses methodological challenges, especially concerning non-human actors and their corporeality. Therefore, specific analytical strategies are required. Situational analysis, focusing on the relationality of heterogeneous actors generating a situation, offers one such possibility. In this article, we explore the multidimensionality and relationality of materiality through two empirical projects about care practices in the medical field. Examples are euthanizing of horses in veterinary medicine and automated technologies in managing type 1 diabetes. In the analysis, we focus on the materiality of the relational network. We propose to extend the situation analysis toolbox by adding dimensionalizing relational mapping, where we categorize the relations between elements into dimensions. In the examples, we use a dimensionalization inspired by care theory. The use of different colors in the mapping practice highlights the multidimensionality of the situation and gives more analytical space to the complexity of the material and embodied connections.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/4079
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Mai 30, 2023, 12:00 am,
Caroline Manahl,
Allgemein.
When researching migration regimes at the micro level, qualitative methods are usually applied to analyze individual experiences of immigrants with different regime actors. In doing so, researchers face the challenge of drawing conclusions from these individual experiences about structures at the macro level which are implemented through various actors and organizations at the meso level. This abstraction is particularly challenging when the legal and institutional context is complex and research participants have little knowledge of the respective state structures and responsibilities (as is often the case with refugees shortly after their arrival in the host country). Based on the experiences from a case study on local and regional structures for the integration of refugees, in this article I analyze the potential of participatory research methods such as social mapping to meet these challenges in regime research. Social mapping is a method that combines the qualities of narrative interviews with a visualization to capture the experiences of research participants with structures and actors in their local environment.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3995
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Mai 30, 2023, 12:00 am,
Amina Hadziomerovic,
Allgemein.
In this paper, I reflect on various ethical, practical and methodological challenges encountered in the field during my anthropological inquiry into the legacies of the Bosnian genocide at home and abroad. I focus on the importance of the researcher's honesty and self-reflexive engagement with the subject(s), particularly in sensitive contexts such as genocide. I discuss my experience of negotiating various social roles ascribed to me in the field, and how they shaped my research process. I also consider the methodological challenges of working with difficult stories of surviving the genocide and the absences of family members who perished in it. Drawing upon a mixed ethnography approach in combination with narrative inquiry and elements of participatory action research (PAR), I demonstrate complexities inherent in long-term ethnographic engagement with the community life that almost vanished. I reflexively engage with the question of how we maintain intellectual, emotional and ethical engagement with the subject of research without sacrificing our academic integrity or human connection embedded within these interactions? Subsequently, I argue for a supportive scholarly space that welcomes discussion about vulnerabilities, ambiguities and fears encountered in the ethnographic field and emerging subjectivities which further shape the final interpretation of cultures.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3996
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Mai 30, 2023, 12:00 am,
Stefanie Raible, René Werner, Stefan Laube,
Allgemein.
How does the use of electronic or digital media influence the production of data in qualitative interviews and observations? While methodological reflections have focused primarily on qualitative research in digital fields, we broaden the perspective to fields that are not digital per se, but which are now increasingly being investigated by qualitative researchers using digitally mediated data collection methods (e.g., by means of video telephony). With the help of field notes on interviews and observations in our own fieldwork, we shed light on the relevance of two aspects: 1. the coexistence of virtual interview or observation situations and the physical locations of the participants, and 2. the selection of certain media (functionalities) in view of an increasing media diversity. In order to discover practices in our empirical material that are linked to these aspects and are particularly relevant from a methodological point of view, we use the theoretical concepts of "polymedia" and "intersituativity" as analytical tools. By doing so, we build a bridge between the methodological reflection of digital qualitative methods of data production and theoretical perspectives of technology and media research in social sciences.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3967
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Mai 30, 2023, 12:00 am,
,
Allgemein.
In this article, we introduce our special issue on the topic of "Social Worlds, Arenas, and Situational Analyses." We start by giving short introductions of situational analysis and of social worlds/arenas theory. By addressing both the commonalities between the individual articles as well as their distinctive features in terms of four thematic areas, we demonstrate the potential of situational analysis and of social worlds/arenas theory.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/4085
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Mai 30, 2023, 12:00 am,
James A. Bernauer,
Allgemein.
LICHTMAN's 4th edition of "Qualitative Research in Education: A User's Guide" is a timely and clearly-written text that both new and experienced researchers will find useful. Although the title and many of the examples in the text relate to education, this book has applicability across different areas of qualitative inquiry. What is especially appealing is that the book is broken into three distinct phases: 1. Traditions, theory, and practice; 2. Planning your research; 3. Collecting, organizing, and communicating. These sections build on each other and this results in readers being able to actually plan and conduct their own qualitative inquiries. Readers will also find that the examples used throughout the text as well as the appendices complement the clear writing and explicit instruction. For all of these reasons, this text deserves serious consideration for any curriculum where qualitative inquiry is an essential component.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/4045
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Mai 30, 2023, 12:00 am,
Olaf Tietje,
Allgemein.
In this article, I propose a mosaic mode of qualitative analysis that is focused on how social order and regulations are established in a society. In this way researchers can analyze society as a whole and reconstruct how people govern and are governed by mapping social worlds/arenas and situations in an iterative-cyclic mode.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/4069
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Mai 30, 2023, 12:00 am,
Sarah Lenz,
Allgemein.
Digitalization and sustainability are two transformation dynamics both corresponding and contradicting each other. I will examine their relationship in this article. While digital technologies hold considerable potential for sustainable change (energy efficiency), they also have high energy requirements (e.g., data centers). Modern societies must find legitimate solutions to the resulting problems of action and develop strategies to approach them. What remains unresolved is how such solutions will look. In order to analyze the emergence and development of such solution strategies, I propose to combine two pragmatistic traditions: the French sociology of conventions and the US-American theory of social worlds and arenas. The aim is to make both the creation and the establishment of institutions empirically tangible. By taking the "Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age" of the multi-stakeholder initiative Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES, 2022a) as an example, the relevance of the analysis of social worlds, arenas and boundary objects for the sociology of conventions is established.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/4077
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Mai 30, 2023, 12:00 am,
Anke Schad-Spindler, Stefanie Fridrik, Friederike Landau-Donnelly,
Allgemein.
In this paper, we explore urban cultural politics and policy-making in Austria through the conceptual lens of the arena. In relation to this, we apply the methodological toolbox of Adele CLARKE's situational analysis. With a focus on the dynamics of cultural political conflicts and negotiation, we analyze urban cultural policies and programming. A particular focus is placed on a city-wide cultural program in the city of Graz. Via interpretive analysis of interviews and situational mappings, we aim to analytically unpack the continuous and contingent processes of cultural political negotiation with conflictual consensus as a sensitizing concept. With this objective, our analytical engagement is situated at the intersection between radical democratic theory, referring mainly to Chantal MOUFFE and Oliver MARCHART on the one hand, and social worlds and arenas theory by Adele CLARKE on the other. We hope to contribute to a theoretically sensitized and empirically informed cultural policy research effort by operationalizing the notion of conflictuality in constellations of cultural political actors and negotiation processes in cultural policy-making.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/4068
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