Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14781700.2013.781952?ai=15d&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14781700.2013.825877?ai=15d&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14781700.2013.828905?ai=15d&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14781700.2013.828904?ai=15d&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14781700.2013.828906?ai=15d&mi=3fqos0&af=R
In this article I draw on a theoretical-methodological discussion of urban studies in order to focus on the role transdisciplinarity plays in it. Beginning with a brief review of the difficulties that have plagued empirical urban studies over the years and the main epistemological debates concerning these studies, I then discuss the question of what kind of knowledge can be produced by transdisciplinary studies of the urban, or more precisely: How can transdisciplinarity be productively introduced in a critical research agenda to become a fruitful strategy for urban studies? I emphasize the historical empirical and rather intuitive transdisciplinary imprint of west-European urban studies. I argue that the main theoretical and methodological understanding for contemporary transdisciplinary urban studies is based particularly on the results of the postmodern and the poststructuralist turns which lead scholars to a deeper engagement with scientific reflexivity, ethnography, and the social production of space. Hence, I underline the importance of this critical understanding of such a methodological and theoretical framework of urban studies and conclude that this approach is key for the structural and thematic commitment to the urban today. It is an essential requirement to translate transdisciplinarity into an explicit empirical praxis. The wide range of contemporary transdisciplinary approaches is finally schematically outlined by three main tendencies that are discussed to illustrate their possibilities and limitations for urban studies.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1401175
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1995
Sociological research has so far largely underestimated the potential of film analysis as a means of analyzing societal change. The findings presented in this article are part of current efforts to establish a visual sociology, and specifically a sociology of film. Based on a research project on the cultural foundations of the family and gender order, the article is centered on the potential contribution of film analysis for sociological enquiry. For this purpose, it introduces research on the films Das doppelte Lottchen ("Two Times Lotte," 1950, director: Josef von BAKY) and its remake Charlie und Louise. Das doppelte Lottchen (1994, director: Joseph VILSMAIER). Both movies are understood as "discursive events" within broader public discourses. Our methodology draws on a sociology of knowledge approach to discourse analysis and takes it further by applying audio-visual methods. Documentary video analysis serves as a particularly important toolkit. The article examines the interpretative options with respect to different ways of private life that these movies discursively offer. Both films deny the widely observed social developments towards a pluralization of ways of private life and support an ideal image of the nuclear family. In the 1950 film, the parents' divorce is considered unacceptable, whereas the 1994 remake takes the separation as the starting point of its narration. This discursive transformation can be interpreted as an institutionalization and normalization of separation and divorce. However, the general cultural principle of an intact and harmonious family is not challenged, but rather discursively updated, affirmed and reproduced.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1401157
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2026
Everyday mobility—the ability to move around freely in one's neighborhood—is discussed as an essential foundation of social participation in current mobility research. Numerous studies indicate that mobility decreases as age increases. The decrease is associated with a loss of social integration and declining quality of life. Nevertheless, research is lacking about how individuals cope with decreased mobility, and how changes are initiated in the light of individual perceptions and beliefs.
The goal of the research reported in this article was to explore, using qualitative methods, how changes in mobility can be conceptualized on the basis of subjective constructions and actions in a theory emerging from the data—as defined by grounded theory methodology—which can describe and explain the process. In a second step I developed prospective assumptions about the way in which the use of a mobility assistant, which was developed within the framework of a project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research—could influence the perceptions and beliefs of older people and could promote in this way their mobility.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1401113
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2021
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