Qualitative Social Research - Science topic

After the long-lasting divestment in the Italian public housing system and the privatization of over 20% of the stock, many public dwellings are vacant or in substantial need of maintenance. The article aims at contributing to the literature that addresses the crisis of public housing, by investigating alternatives to its privatization in Italy, a...

This paper reflects on an interdisciplinary and method triangulation approach for digital product development. The research project "Smart Inclusivity for homeless people" (SIWo), conducted by the Ohm, is cited as an example. In the project, research methods from qualitative social sciences involving group discussions and interviews were combined w...

This study aims to analyze the impact of a cashless and cardless society on millennials. This research is a qualitative social research using primary data. Problem identification is supported by the VostViewer tool. Data collection techniques include interviews, observation and reviewing cashless and cardless practices. Meanwhile, the data analysis...

Tekstini osallistuu sosiaalitutkimuksen painopisteistä käytävään keskusteluun ja erityisesti laadullisen tutkimuksen teorioita, menetelmiä ja tutkimustapoja koskevaan nykydebattiin. Panokseni rakentuu kolmiosaisesti. Tarjoan ensinnäkin kehittelemäni analyyttisen välineen, teoria-menetelmä-pakettityökalun (TMP-työkalu) tutkijayhteisön käyttöön. TMP-...

Este artigo é parte de uma pesquisa mais ampla que analisa os processos sociais e culturais envolvidos na condição da monoparentalidade feminina, enfatizando jornadas exaustivas e responsabilização pela economia dos cuidados e reprodução social da vida. Objetiva-se analisar como as estruturas opressoras patriarcais afetam e refletem nas vivências d...

The article develops a catalog of eleven scientific quality criteria for sociological research papers from an analytical-empirical perspective. The criteria catalog includes quality requirements for theory development and empirical social research. A distinction is made between two basic criteria that address the entire research process, nine core...

This research aims to provide information to BUMDes to create business units that can manage and utilize village potential to advance community businesses while at the same time developing BUMDes businesses. In this study there are several problem formulations including: (1). How to optimize the potential of Duarato village that can be developed by...

Zusammenfassung Spätestens seit Beginn der COVID-19-Pandemie wurde öffentlich vielfach diskutiert, welche Auswirkungen die Arbeit im Homeoffice auf die Beschäftigten hat und ob die Zunahme des mobilen Arbeitens neue Chancen für die Geschlechtergerechtigkeit birgt. An diesen Diskurs knüpft die Untersuchung an und widmet sich der Frage, wie das Homeo...

Synthetic herbicides have revolutionised agricultural weed control. Herbicide resistance (HR) is a natural process through which weeds evolve to be no longer susceptible to a herbicide. Repeated use of similar herbicides can lead to the proliferation of resistant weed populations, with detrimental on-farm effects. To date, 267 weed species worldwid...

The Nicaraguan festivity dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is a very vast topic. In this study, our purpose is an approach to the Gritería, an activity celebrated the day before. It is intended to show that the heritage value of a cultural asset is a process that is built with the creation, appropriation, resemantization and...

Wie beeinflusst der Einsatz elektronischer bzw. digitaler Medien die Produktion von Daten in qualitativen Interviews und Beobachtungen? Während methodologische Reflexionen bislang v.a. auf die qualitative Erforschung digitaler Felder konzentriert sind, erweitern wir die Perspektive auf Felder, die nicht per se digital sind, die aber mittlerweile vo...

La investigación social cualitativa de la vida de las personas migrantes en Chile implica indagar en el sufrimiento social que se erige sobre la “condición migratoria” que se produce. El progresivo recrudecimiento de las políticas migratorias tanto a nivel nacional como internacional desde finales del siglo XX ha profundizado más aún los efectos de...

O trabalho está na área da Educação Física, Esportes e Educação Ambiental, e tem como objetivo investigar possibilidades e desafios no processo de inclusão e aplicação dos esportes de aventura nas aulas de Educação Física, no ciclo II, do ensino fundamental. Os participantes da pesquisa foram alunos de 4ª e 5ª ano do ensino fundamental de uma escol...

Looking at specific characteristics of a photographic image, different aspects are noticeable, such as the constructed reality captured by the camera’s one-eyed viewfinder respectively the designed cut-outs of world. These viewing regimes conserve patterns, which in turn can be reconstructed with methods of empirical social research. In detail, cul...

Digital features like virtual reality have hardly been used in the framework of data collection in qualitative social work research. Virtual reality holds specific promise because it allows the immersion of participants in a situation and has the potential to strengthen the ecological validity of data. In this light, we examined the use of a virtua...

The article addresses the sociology and practices of translation. The main argument is that translation work should be understood in ethnomethodological terms as an indexical, social, and interactive practice that produces an ongoing “third space” of difference. The article provides insights into the practice of ethnographic translation work in a m...

Educational communities are understood as a group of people who participate in the learning processes of an educational institution, academic center, or school. Accordingly, in this review article, the current theory about learning communities and their possible influence on English communicative competence are bonded together through discussion. T...

The subject of this review is the book entitled: "Jakościowe Metody Badań Społecznych -podejście aplikacyjne" ("Qualitative social research methods - an applied approach") by Prof. Dominika Maison.

Qualitative social research has systematically dispensed with the use of accessible and shared empirical referents from which to agree on the production and analysis of the speech under study. From this deficit, what this work does is to analyse the problem of speech used as empirical material for observation from the point of view of scientific wo...

La reflexividad ha sido considerada tradicionalmente una herramienta metodológica en la investigación cualitativa en ciencias sociales, especialmente útil en el trabajo de campo. Sin embargo, en este artículo defendemos la pertinencia de trascender esta perspectiva y posicionar la reflexividad como una práctica trasversal. Entendida como práctica,...

Zusammenfassung Der Artikel entwickelt einen Katalog von elf wissenschaftlichen Gütekriterien für soziologische Forschungsarbeiten aus einer analytisch-empirischen Perspektive. Der Kriterienkatalog umfasst Qualitätsanforderungen an die Theorieentwicklung und die empirische Sozialforschung. Unterschieden werden zwei Basiskriterien, die den gesamten...

The widespread use of digital communication technologies has created new opportunities for social research. In this paper, we explore the limits and potentials of using messaging and social media apps as tools for qualitative research. Building upon our research on Italian migration to Shanghai, we discuss in detail the methodological choice of usi...

Qualitative Interviews haben pandemiebedingt eine Virtualisierung erfahren. Der Goldstandard der Face-to-Face-Interviews wurde in ein digitales Format übersetzt, d.h., Interviews werden auf Distanz geführt. Die Notwendigkeit, die Potenziale und Grenzen von Interviews auf Distanz zu reflektieren sowie epistemologische Konsequenzen zu bedenken, ist a...

There is limited documentation of cross-tenure collaborative weed management programs, and no consistent set of metrics for evaluating their performance. In this study, twelve weed management practitioners in south-east Australia participated in a qualitative social research project to discuss and document examples of cross-tenure collaborative wee...

Games are popular heuristics of sociological theory. However, their potential for empirical research has not yet been systematically recognized and tested. In this working paper, we attempt to combine qualitative grounded theory methodology and game design in the sense of design games. With the rise of digital media as a major sociological topic, s...

The stay-at-home measures imposed by governments to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic have drawn attention to the domestic sphere. Besides spending much more time at home in general, people also required the private sphere to fulfill multiple functions, including as workplaces, schools, and fitness centers. Within a qualitative social research frame...

Hintergrund der Studie war die Beleuchtung ermöglichender und restringierender Faktoren für einen inklusiven und grenzübergreifenden Sozialraum für Menschen mit Behinderungen (MmB) in der Grenzregion Bayern-Tirol. Im Folgenden wird auf die methodologische und methodische Strategie sowie Erfahrung des qualitativen Ansatzes in der Inklusion von MmB i...

One of the most important processes related to the transformation of the spatial structure of rural areas is land consolidation and parcel exchange, carried out under the Rural Development Programme. At present, when undertaking land consolidation, it is important to foresee activities to promote creative attitudes among rural inhabitants and eng...

In modern developed democracies, the mechanism of control of the executive structure by the representative body operates at both the central and local levels of government. In the case of Georgia, the analysis of the regional level is important, because the autonomy of Adjara in the country creates an important regional level of governance, and the...

The modern migration processes in Georgia, especially ecological motives that are caused by the social enviroment have many reasons and they don’t fully corresponds to the socio-economic strategic interests of the development of the country. It is the weak economy mainly due to geographical factors, the backwardness and high cost of the service sec...

The present paper addresses how the concept of double-dialogicality may contribute to our understanding of how to generalize from single cases. Various attempts have been made within qualitative social research to define how generalization is possible from single cases. One problem with generalization in psychology is that any human activity and se...

Social research is a focused, systematic inquiry intended to generate new knowledge. It is the intellectual tool of social scientists, which allows them to enter contexts of personal and/or public interest that are unknown to them, and to search for answers to their questions. Social research is about discovery, expanding the horizons of the known,...

Este artículo trata de ofrecer una remirada sobre la metodología sociológica cualitativa hecha en España en los últimos dos o tres lustros. No hay propósito de inventario, sino de perspectiva, de selección muestral «estratégica», de «muestreo teórico» (Glaser y Strauss, 1967) y muestra «estructural» (Ibáñez, 1979). Esto nos ha llevado a recurrir a...

El presente artículo aborda los inicios del concepto de bricoleur y sus implicancias en las investigaciones sociales cualitativas, específicamente en etnografías colaborativas al sumar nuevas herramientas, disciplinas y técnicas de representación. En este escrito se realiza un recorrido de la disciplina antropológica, hasta encontrar un punto de in...

This text addresses the problem of information privacy in qualitative social research developed in the context of the digital world. For this purpose, the concept of privacy is reviewed from an analogical view towards its incorporation in the digital plane with the figure of information privacy and some elements of Gadamer’s hermeneutics. First, th...

This article addresses the sociology and practices of translation. The main argument is that translation work should be understood in ethnomethodological terms as an indexical, social, and interactive practice that produces an ongoing “third space” of difference. The article provides insights into the practice of ethnographic translation work in a...

This article addresses the onset of the bricoleur notion and its implications in qualitative social research, specifically in collaborative ethnographies, by adding new tools, disciplines, and representation techniques|. In this article, a journey through anthropology as a discipline is taken on to find a turning point between bricolage and collabo...

Este artigo tem como o objeto de análise dados diagnósticos, produzidos por órgãos de governo nacionais ou organizações internacionais e intergovernamentais, sobre a prática esportiva no Brasil e na Espanha, coletados entre 2013 e 2015 e no caso espanhol de 2015 e 2019. O principal objetivo da pesquisa é analisar, comparativamente, as característic...

Society, culture, and the state profoundly impact the body; bodily practices also play active roles in combating social ills and (re)constituting heterodox cultural mores. This paper analyzes the unorthodox bodily rituals of the followers of the famed “mystic minstrel,” Fakir Lalon Shah, in contemporary Bangladesh. This ethnographic research with t...

Water infrastructures are often living infrastructures, whose operation relies on processes involving other-than-human living beings. This article considers the materiality of waterscapes by attending to this liveliness. We argue that critical water research can benefit from situating social relations and water transformations within more-than-huma...

The objective of this article is to present a methodology that can contribute to the development of student emancipation through education and formation in the classroom according to the point of view of the Critical Theory of Society. Adorno believed that the school context commonly works with an excluding education, which is only interested in...

El objetivo de este trabajo es confirmar empíricamente, por medio del análisis de los municipios con Presupuesto Participativo en la Comunidad Valenciana después de las elecciones municipales de 2015 y 2019, que la voluntad política es un elemento fundamental para la puesta en marcha y la continuidad de las experiencias de Presupuesto Participativo...

Este artigo busca compreender como Alcides Prado Nogueira exerceu a liderança política no município de Lafaiete Coutinho – BA, desenvolvendo atividades políticas e também sociais. Utiliza-se aqui a metodologia da História Oral para dar o aporte necessário na escrita do trabalho de pesquisa, recorrendo as narrativas de pessoas que conviveram com ess...

This case study reports a two-phase research project into tourism development in a rural district, Timaru, in the South Island of New Zealand. It addresses a lack of research into small town regeneration in New Zealand. The research is set within scholarly debates about small-town tourism-led regeneration, place promotion, and the impact on tourism...

Este artigo busca compreender como as famílias Lomanto e Borges exerceram poder político no município de Jequié – BA, desenvolvendo forte liderança na política local e também a nível estadual. Utiliza-se aqui a metodologia da História Oral para dar o aporte necessário na escrita do trabalho de pesquisa, recorrendo a falas de pessoas que conviveram...

We report on qualitative social research conducted with stakeholders in a local agricultural knowledge and advice network associated with a collaborative water quality monitoring project. These farmers, advisors and researchers allude to existing social dynamics, technological developments, and (more general) social evolution which is analysed agai...

The qualitative paradigm is at a new stage of development. That is the position of the well-known international journal FQS (Forum: Qualitative Social Research), which started the discussion “Quality of qualitative research”, where it raises topical issues of further development of the field as a kind of “Where is the qualitative paradigm going?”.T...

Der vorliegende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie einerseits die Hochschulen als Organisationen auf die pandemiebedingte Umstellung auf digitale Lehre im Sommersemester 2020 reagiert haben und wie sich diese Umstellung andererseits auf das Erleben von Bildung, Raumerfahrungen und Zeitlichkeit aus Sicht der Lehrenden und Studierenden auswirkte. Als e...

Herbicide-resistant weeds are a growing challenge in agricultural systems worldwide, leading to additional management costs and yield losses. Best practice management guidelines have been promoted for decades, yet incidences of resistance continue to increase. In New Zealand, herbicide resistance might be more widespread than commonly assumed. To r...

Es werden zunächst zentrale Aspekte der internationalen Debatte um die Archivierung und Sekundäranalyse qualitativer Daten vorgestellt und diskutiert. Diese Darstellung ist an der These orientiert, dass viele der in dieser Debatte verhandelten Probleme mit der für die qualitative Sozialforschung konstitutiv erscheinenden engen Verbindung zwischen d...

Este artigo é resultado de pesquisa do Projeto de Educação Ambiental (PEA) Pescarte, que é uma medida de mitigação ambiental exigida pelo licenciamento ambiental federal, conduzida pelo IBAMA. Descrevemos e analisamos o papel das metodologias pedagógicas empregadas nos processos de educação não formal, na vertente da Educação Ambiental Crítica, pro...

Co-production of knowledge, where academic and lay researchers work as partners, is a central characteristic of participatory action research. It requires the participants to engage in a transformative dialogue. But how can co-production of knowledge function in the care home setting? We addressed this question in a specific interaction between aca...

This chapter describes the emergence of solidarity actions in two European countries—Greece and Hungary—in response to two recent crises: the arrival of large numbers of refugees in 2015 and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Focusing on the experiences in two European countries with different socio-political, historical trajectories and civic traditio...

Qualitative social research Reviewing Space and Place: The Geography of Euclidean Space to the Space of Experience and Imagination

El artículo propuesto centra su análisis en la reflexión de los problemas, dificultades y desafíos de la investigación social contemporánea, para lo cual fue necesario partir del debate histórico entre métodos de investigación cuantitativa y cualitativa y la inserción del positivismo en las prácticas de los investigadores, llegando a señalar sobre...

Im Rahmen des Beitrags wird der Blick auf den beruflichen Habitus von Lehrkräften in Bezug auf ihren Umgang mit Sexualität, Nähe und Distanz in schulischen Kontexten gerichtet. Mithilfe der Methode der Sequenzanalytischen Habitusrekonstruktion (Kramer 2018) werden die habituellen Dispositionen in Bezug auf diese Themen am empirischen Fall von Nikla...

I reflect here on one of the most deeply rooted aspects of Indian culture: the mystical, magical and healing powers attributed to waters, mainly river waters, in the context of the current global health crisis. For this, I have selected as a documentary case study the religious festival known as “Kumbha Mela”. I use a hermeneutical methodology (his...

The objective of the paper is to present the theoretical and methodological foundations of sociological discourse analysis (SDA) and to demonstrate the practical application of its procedural basis by way of an exemplary case that has as its theme the culture of devotion to organizations. The development of a practical SDA plan is a constructive an...

El presente trabajo pretende identificar tanto las condiciones de producción como las de reconocimiento de sentidos de piezas publicitarias sobre consumo de sustancias psicoactivas difundidas por el Ministerio de Salud y el Consejo Publicitario Argentino luego de la promulgación dela Ley Nacional de Salud Mental y disponibles hasta 2018, con refere...

Bauprojekte sind in der Regel komplexe Vorhaben. Sie werden mit Hilfe des Projektmanagements und dessen Verfahren, Prozessen und Techni-ken bewältigt. Dennoch sind deutsche Bauprojekte nicht selten von Kos-ten- und Terminüberschreitungen betroffen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, mögliche Optimierungsfelder im Planungs- und Steuerungsprozess eines Unter...

Thick concepts are concepts that describe and evaluate at once. Academic discussion on thick concepts originated in meta-ethics, but thick concepts increasingly draw attention from qualitative researchers working in the social sciences, too. However, these scholars work in relative isolation from each other, and an overview of their ideas is missin...

This article analyses the representation of postcolonial Indonesian children's literary works in a form of a novel entitled Komponis Kecil by Soesilo Toer. Komponis Kecil tells a story about the friendship of two figures namely Henki and Meneer Kleber. Meneer Kleber taught Henki to play a violin which at that time was considered as a musical instru...

This book offers an account of contemplative reflection in qualitative social research. Focusing on the experiences of the researcher – including sensory and emotional experiences – and the work of the mind in the investigative process, it considers the means by which the researcher’s basic assumptions can be analyzed and bracketed, so as to shed l...

The search for a final repository in Germany lies in the field of tension between a past characterized by conflicts and a future-oriented process shaped by the repository site selection procedure. An examination of the history of social conflicts can be of assistance for the organization of participation concepts and positively influence the discou...

Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) provides the interface for the meeting of farmers and scientists. This is a meeting of different social worlds, contesting agendas, cultures of cooperation and networks of actors. Like in other disciplines, scientists in AR4D have developed their own culture of science. However, the role of their culture...

In this paper, with a view to the high levels of absence due to sickness and presenteeism, it is explored how management and team leadership can be integrated on a more sustained basis in health prevention. Private sector enterprises on one hand, and organisations in the public sector, on the other, pursue and prioritise in this aspect different ap...

Zusammenfassung Das hier vorgestellte Dissertationsprojekt beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Schulsozialarbeiter*innen ihr professionelles Handeln im beruflichen Alltag reflektieren. In der Vorbereitung der ethnografischen Feldphase zeigten sich forschungsethische, datenschutzrechtliche und forschungspraktische Fragestellungen. Der Kontext Schule...

Qualitative Sozialforschung basiert häufig, sei es explizit oder implizit, auf einem starken Konzept von Subjekt und dessen "Lebenswelt"‚ als dessen sinnhafter Ökologie. Die Grundannahme ist, dass es subjektiver Sinn ist, der als erlebte Einheit einmal eine metaphysische Grundlage für die Möglichkeit der qualitativen Sozialforschung darstellt und d...

Die sozialrechtliche Anerkennung systemischer Therapie und damit die Anerkennung des Nutzens und der medizinischen Notwendigkeit der systemischen Therapie bei Erwachsenen als Psychotherapieverfahren (Pressemitteilung G-BA, 2018) wird sich auch auf die Qualitätssicherung und Evaluation therapeutischer Prozesse in diesem Feld auswirken. Dieser Arti...

Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar um breve histórico sobre a política energética no Brasil, para ser possível compreender o contexto em que se insere o processo de planejamento para instalação da Usina Hidrelétrica Castanheira/UHE em Juara, Mato Grosso/MT, e a prospecção dos impactos do racismo ambiental que a população indígena Munduruku,...

In this paper, we seek to open a dialogue about the approach of co-interviewing, which, to our surprise, has not received much attention in the realm of qualitative social research. The co-interviewing approach stands apart from ‘multiple’ interviewing, in which two or more researchers are tasked with conducting interviews in a single research stud...

Перевод текста: Skinner D., Valsiner J., Holland D. Discerning the Dialogical Self : A Theoretical and Methodological Examination of a Nepali Adolescent’s Narrative // Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung. — 2001. — Vol. 2, no. 3.

This paper aims at describing and exploring the prevalence of girl child marriage and its causes from parents’ point of view in Punjab. To explain and explore the said issue, study was based on qualitative social research methodology and used phenomenological research approach. A loosely structured interview guide was developed for data collection....

This paper explores the everyday experiences, perceptions, and practices of Kosovo Serbs residing in the rural fabric of Southeast Kosovo with regard to security-related issues. Building on previous qualitative social research conducted in Central Kosovo, it particularly investigates how local responses of ordinary Serbs reflect a certain pragmatic...

This discussion paper considers how seldom recognised theories influence clinical ethics committees. A companion paper examined four major theories in social science: positivism, interpretivism, critical theory and functionalism, which can encourage legalistic ethics theories or practical living bioethics, which aims for theory–practice congruence....

A temática ambiental conquista espaço no contexto educacional como tema transversal. Para contribuir neste debate, o presente artigo tem como objetivo entender a Educação Física a partir da abordagem da Ciência da Motricidade Humana como proposta Emancipatória a favor da Vida. A metodologia é do tipo pesquisa social qualitativa que desenvolveu estu...

The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 21 (2021), No. 1, pp. 14-21. Today, personal accounts belong to the canon of professional knowledge about the experience of madness. This holds for the rise of consumer/survivor/ex-patient narratives in the context of present ‘user-involvement’ policies in mental health care,...

Violence against Women (VAW) occurs in different societies in assorted ways in the world. It can be seen from the different lens starting from family structure to the workplaces of women. In Pakistan women experience violence from their own family members even after the promulgation of legislation at national as well as at provincial level. There i...

Zusammenfassung Die vorliegende Arbeit folgt dem videografischen Zugang, wie ihn Knoblauch, Heath, Mondada und andere für die qualitative Sozialforschung und die Multimodale Interaktionsanalyse beschrieben haben. Im Zuge dieser Ausrichtung ist auch für die vorliegende Arbeit die Erhebung natürlicher Daten authentischer Predigtereignisse im jeweilig...

This work analyzes visible reading practices, which were identified in a public library in Guadalajara, Mexico. Based on a sociocultural perspective of reading as social practice, we focused on the particular conditions and demands that the reader faces in a given space and leads him to develop reading activity in some specific way. The activity na...

En este artículo se aborda el tema de la sistematización de experiencias como opción investigativa generadora de trasformaciones, por cuanto promueve procesos de reflexividad que potencian a su vez, cambios positivos en actitudes, prácticas y relaciones. Para esto se presenta la sistematización de una experiencia en convivencia y gobierno privado e...

The channels of intergovernmental agreement are instances of the decentralization and regionalization strengthening in the Unified Health System. Decentralization is an important device for the production of regional power. The article aims to reflect on the importance of the Regional Intergovernmental Commission in health governance in the First H...

In this article, we analyze the nature of qualitative research with a particular focuson education, which provides a brief historical background on the evolution of qualitative research and some of the reasons why this approach represents a valid and rigorous methodology to study social phenomena. We analyze the role of the qualitative researcher i...

This article aims to introduce the Extended Case Method (ECM) as an approach to qualitative social research. As an approach, the ECM rooted in the ethnography approach in the anthropological tradition and developed in the sociological tradition research. With reference to Michael Buroway (1998) as a developer of ECM and some articles that used ECM...

Este trabalho de pesquisa possui como tema as barreiras excludentes (atitudinais, físicas e/ou pedagógicas) enfrentadas por um aluno que apresenta déficit intelectual, do nono ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública da cidade de Bagé (RS). Em nosso estudo, temos como objetivo investigar barreiras à aprendizagem e à participação desse estuda...

Ao pensar o fortalecimento da relação ciência-sociedade no contexto da comunicação social e da divulgação científica, este trabalho visa promover, pelo olhar do campo da Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS), uma reflexão sobre a participação social na formulação de políticas públicas em Ciência e Tecnologia (C&T). Por meio de uma abordagem explora...

Bien entendido como técnica (Bonilla Loyo, Valle Rojas y Martínez Bonilla, 2012; Canales Cerón, 2006), método (Arboleda, 2008), estrategia metodológica (López Francés, 2010; Rogel-Salazar, 2018), dispositivo (Alonso, 1996; Ibáñez, 1979) o práctica de investigación (Callejo, 2001), el grupo de discusión, junto con la observación participante y la en...

Against the background of the increasing importance of digitization in health care, the paper examines how medical practitioners who are involved in the development of digital health technologies legitimate and criticize the implementation and use of digital health technologies. Adopting an institutional logics perspective, the study is based on qu...

Populismo penal, políticas públicas y seguridad ciudadana en Venezuela en el período bolivariano (1999-2015) Tesista: Carlos L. Avendaño Directora: Carolina Schillagi Miembros del jurado de defensa: Violeta Dikenstein, Mariana Lorenz y Jeremías Silva Fecha de defensa: 10 de noviembre de 2020 Esta investigación se realizó con la finalidad de analiza...

Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war es, die Hindernisse und Bewältigungsstrategien von Bildungsaufsteiger_Innen vor dem Hintergrund ihres subjektiven Erlebens zu rekonstruieren. Neben einer Betrachtung bildungssoziologischer Befunde wurden zur Beantwortung der Fragestellung biografisch-narrative Interviews mit Bildungssaufsteiger_Innen durchgeführt, r...

In this article we introduce the method of the exhibition interview walk (EIW) and contextualize it within qualitative social research. In the EIW, the focused interview and thinking aloud are combined through object elicitation in a walking conversation. In the commons research project presented here, the EIW method was applied in a specially desi...

As the role of non-state actors continues to rise on the agenda of global politics, the engagement of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in various issue areas is taking on new relevance. The presence of a sizeable voluntary sector that interacts transnationally has brought forward new questions about the bewildering complexity of world politics...

City logistics as a research field offers a wide range of potential solutions and technologies for advancing toward modern and sustainable mobility. As societies demand environments that are more ecological and cities tackle the effects of growing e-commerce, innovative tools to regulate urban economic traffic become increasingly important. Based o...

Social and qualitative research to understand the COVID-19

ESP: En esta tesis doctoral se pretenden identificar y caracterizar las dinámicas de exclusión e inclusión derivadas del desarrollo turístico que puedan servir de base para un desarrollo teórico del análisis social del turismo. Sobre esta perspectiva, que es caracterizada y contextualizada en el marco de los estudios turísticos, y en territorios de...

Corporal punishment (CP) is a conspicuous and serious matter of Pakistani schools. In response to this prevalent social problem the government of Pakistan like other countries has legislated against corporal punishments through Corporal Punishment Act, 2010 which restricts CP of every type in all educational institutes of the country. The said poli...