Introduction
Volume 23, Issue 3, July 2021, Page 217-220
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Quelle: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14608944.2020.1858773?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Ber. Wissenschaftsgesch. 2/2021
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 113-113, June 2021.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bewi.202180211?af=R
The Refiguration of Spaces and Methodological Challenges of Cross-Cultural Comparison
In most reflections on cross-cultural comparison, scholars assume that "cultures" can be relatively clearly demarcated spatially and that "space" itself is a given entity. However, theories such as the theory of refiguration of spaces have stressed both that it is important to deconstruct the category "space" itself and that social processes have been characterized by major spatial transformations since the mid-twentieth century. Based on this idea, in two FQS thematic issues scholars from various disciplines will ask what consequences the refiguration of spaces has for cross-cultural comparison and what one can methodologically learn from research on cross-cultural comparison about the analysis of refiguration of spaces. In the first issue, authors from sociology and historical sciences are focusing mostly on the methodological issues. In this article, we provide a frame for this debate by ordering the earlier discussion on cross-cultural comparison along four questions: Why do we compare? Who or what are we comparing where and when? How can we compare? What methodological conclusions can be drawn from the debate on cross-cultural comparison concerning the analysis of social processes across different spatial scales and time layers in order to assess causality?
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3755
Methods in the Center! Methods into the Center? Potentials and Limits of University Methods Centers for the Expansion of Qualitative Teaching and Education
The ability to use scientific methods in a valid manner requires skills on many levels. In Germany, until a few years ago only a small number of methods centers within universities existed. In the last decade, as a result of governmental funding programs to increase the quality of academic teaching, their number has almost tripled. In this article, we discuss how methods centers can contribute to both the development and practice of a qualitative research and the valid application of qualitative methods. For this purpose, we have examined the offerings and activities of 11 methods centers in Germany and Austria, mainly on the basis of their websites; in addition, we conducted interviews with members of the institutions. We discovered that university methods centers hold considerable potential to broaden and deepen qualitative methods education and teaching. When structural dimensions are taken into account, limitations also become apparent; in particular, unclear perspectives for the scientific staff as well as limited course offerings due to temporary funding.
Quelle: https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3736