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Christoph Maeder
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Maeder
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Christoph
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für SoziologieVolume: 39Issue: 2
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Forum Qualitative Research (online)Volume: 9Issue: 1
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PublicationQualitative Methods in Europe: The Variety of Social ResearchThis paper serves as an introduction to the special issue of FQS on "Qualitative Methods in Europe". It outlines the particular situation of qualitative research in this realm, which is characterised by diversity and unity. Diversity since the different intellectual traditions and institutional structures of the social sciences, which form the background of qualitative research differ significantly between the various countries. This variation indicates a number of traditional ways to do qualitative research that complement and complete the well-known Anglo-Saxon development. Unity, since despite all the differences, the various ways of doing research are characterised by the interpretive paradigm, a way of "doing" social sciences that builds on meaning, understanding and context.Type: journal articleJournal: Forum: Qualitative Social ResearchVolume: 6Issue: 3
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PublicationFuzzy Fields. Multi-sited Ethnography in Sociological ResearchDoing participating observation in the "field" is an indispensable characteristic of ethnography. Yet, the problems of constructing a field for ethnographic research attract surprisingly little attention in textbooks and research reports. Sociological ethnography does hardly ever aim at giving holistic representations of clearly bounded (small) groups. It rather focuses on certain theoretically defined aspects of a given culture. Therefore, defining and delineating a field becomes a crucial step in an empirical study. In our article we propose a concept of the field as social world(s) constituted by a set of actors focused on a common concern. With the example of our ongoing research project on exclusion and integration in welfare and economy we argue for a multi-sited approach, which traces its inherently fragmented and multiply situated research object across social worlds. We discuss the problems arising from such a strategy and discuss the function of the field in theory driven sociological ethnography. We contend that multi-sited ethnography is particularly suited for building empirically grounded sociological theories.Type: journal articleJournal: Forum Qualitative Research, On-line JournalVolume: 6Issue: 3
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für SoziologieVolume: 30Issue: 1
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Forschung, Wissenschaft: Soziale ArbeitVolume: 4Issue: 2
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Zeitschrift für Sozialhilfe : ZeSoVolume: 100Issue: 6
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Forum Qualitative SozialforschungVolume: 3Issue: 1
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PublicationEveryday Routine, Social Structure and Sociological Theory: Using Ethnographic Semantics for Research on PrisonsThe ethnographic reconstruction of a selected semantic field within a prison reveals the potential of a method hardly ever used in the research field in the German speaking countries: ethnographic semantics. Thus it is demonstrated how fertile this kind of research on prisons in terms of understanding this particular social order can be. In addition, references to general sociological theory and other super-ordinate discourses concerning prison-practice become intelligibleType: journal articleJournal: Forum: Qualitative Social ResearchVolume: 3Issue: 1