Qualitative methods

Preliminary information:

A large number of the articles can be found at www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm, www.qualitative-sozialforschung.de/ and http://www.qualitative-forschung.de/psde/link.htm. It is worth doing your own research in these sources, as some of the platforms are equipped with their own search options or the search with http://www.google.de/advanced_search?hl=de<!--[if !supportNestedAnchors]--><!--[endif]--> in the addresses for your own search terms leads to more specific results. This link list does not claim to be exhaustive.

General information

Lexicon:

www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wlm/ilmes.htm
ILMES

(Online) journals and specialised platforms:

www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/index.html
The Qualitative Report. An online journal dedicated to qualitative research since 1990.

www.qualitative-sozialforschung.de/
www.qualitative-sozialforschung.de - the platform on the web (!)

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung (!)

www.zbbs.de/
Journal for qualitative educational, counselling and social research

www2.tu-berlin.de/fb7/ifs/psychologie/reports/index.htm
"Blaue Reihe" from the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Social Sciences at TU Berlin

Databases:

www.gesis.org/Bibliotheken/ZABIB/
Specialised library 'Empirical Social Research'

www.gesis.org/Forschung/index.htm
GESIS - focus on correspondence analysis

Link collections:

directory.google.com/Top/World/German/Science/Social_Sciences/Qualitative_Social_Research/
Google: Qualitative Social Research

www.uni-trier.de/uni/fb4/soziologie/faecher/empirik/methoden.html
Methodological links of the University of Trier

www.gesis.org/SocioGuide/index.htm
Sources on the social sciences, GESIS

www.wiwi.uni-wuppertal.de/kappelhoff/pages/download.html
Recent papers, working papers and scripts, Chair Kappelhoff, University of Wuppertal

Centres/institutions

www.gesis.org/ZUMA/index.htm
Centre for Surveys, Methods and Analyses (Mannheim)

www.gesis.org/ZA/
Central Archive for Empirical Social Research (Cologne)

www.quatext.de/
Institute for Qualitative Social Research e.V. (Berlin)

Mailing list Qualitative Social Research

www.qualitative-forschung.de/kommunikation/mailingliste/index.php

www.qualitative-research.net/qf/qsf-l/qsf-l-sub.htm

Qualitative versus quantitative research

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt1-01-d.htm
Topic from the FQS with various essays, edited by Margrit Schreier and Nigel Fielding

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-01/1-01witt-d.htm

Research strategies in quantitative and qualitative social research
By Harald Witt

Problems of qualitative research - introductory texts

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-01/3-01abdi-d.htm
Qualitative methodology, historical sociology and oral societies: On Assessing the Reliability of Memory
By Ali A. Abdi (FQS)

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-01/3-01baptiste-d.htm
Qualitative data analysis: common phases, different strategies. By Ian Baptiste (FQS)

userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mruck/Ber-96-1.html
Reflections on qualitative methodology and qualitative research practice. The flip side of psychological research reports. By: Katja Mruck and Günter Mey

www.graswurzel.net/272/anna4.shtml
The dregs of the soup. Approaches to qualitative scientific empiricism (article)

www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR1-4/tendencies.html
By: Ron Chenail (introductory text)

www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/qualmeth.html
Qualitative Methods Workbook. By George Boeree (E-BOOK)

Qualitative research approaches

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Objective hermeneutics

www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Ehermeneu/
Working Group Objective Hermeneutics e.V.: Homepage of the AG Objektive Hermeneutik with information on working contexts and contact options.

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt2-00-d.htm
Various articles on the use of objective hermeneutics in German-speaking qualitative psychology in FQS 1(2)

www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Ehermeneu/Struktur-von-Deutungsmuster-1973.rtf
On analysing the structure of social interpretation patterns. By Ulrich Oevermann.

www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Ehermeneu/Fallrekonstruktion-1981.PDF
Case reconstructions and structural generalisation as a contribution of objective hermeneutics to sociological-structural-theoretical analysis. By Ulrich Oevermann.

www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Ehermeneu/Krise-und-Musse-1996.rtf
Crisis and leisure. Structural properties of aesthetic experience from a sociological perspective. By Ulrich Oevermann.

www.ihsk.de/ManifestWord.doc
Clinical sociology based on the methodology of objective hermeneutics - Manifesto of objective hermeneutic social research. By Ulrich Oevermann.

www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Ehermeneu/Werkimman-Interpret-1997.rtf
Theses on the methodology of work-immanent interpretation from the standpoint of objective hermeneutics.
By Ulrich Oevermann.

Biographical research

www.univie.ac.at/Wirtschaftsgeschichte/Doku/langtext.html/
More detailed information on the history and activities surrounding the "documentation of life history records". By Christa Hämmerle

www.georgpeez.de/texte/aunarr.htm
Collection and analysis of autobiographical-narrative interviews. By Georg Peez

Ethnomethodology

www2.fmg.uva.nl/emca/
Information on Ethnomethodolgy and Conversation Analysis: links, publications, conference information, contact options, compiled by Paul ten Have.

www.pscw.uva.nl/emca/mica.htm
"Methodological Issues in Conversation Analysis". By Paul ten Have

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-02/3-02tenhave-d.htm
On the centrality of "membership": On the role of membership knowledge in ethnomethodological research.
By Paul ten Have (FQS)

www.socresonline.org.uk/3/2/1.html
Recording Social Life: Reflexivity and Video Methodology. By Helen Lomax and Neil Casey

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-02/3-02day-d.htm
"Me, My*self and I": Personal and Professional Re-constructions in Ethnographic Research.
By Eileen Day (FQS)

Field research/ Ethnography

dragonmud.org/people/jen/afa.html
Ethnographic Fieldwork on the Internet. By Jen Clodius (U Wisconsin)

www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR3-1/harris.html
Surviving Ethnography: Coping with Isolation, Violence and Anger: Article by Jennifer Harris from "The Qualitative Report" (Volume 3, Number 1, March, 1997), which deals with "the intensities of emotion experienced by a novice ethnographer".

Grounded Theory

www.groundedtheory.org
The Grounded Theory Institute

www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR2-4/pandit.html
The Creation of Theory: A Recent Application of the Grounded Theory Method. By Naresh R. Pandit

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-00/1-00samik-d.htm
Grounded Theory Methodology as a Research Strategy for a Developing Country. By Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (FQS)

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-02/3-02glaser-e.htm
Constructivist Grounded Theory? By Barney G. Glaser (FQS)

Problem-centred interview/topic-centred interview

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm
The problem-centred interview. By Andreas Witzel (FQS)

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00kuehnwitzel-d.htm
The use of a qualitative database in the evaluation process of problem-centred interviews
By Thomas Kuehn and Andreas Witzel (FQS)

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-00/2-00schorn-d.htm
The "topic-centred interview". A method for decoding manifest and latent aspects of subjective reality. By Ariane Schorn (FQS)

Type formation

www.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/club/Idealtypen.htm
Literature list, compiled by Ralf Schüle and Jochen Weikert

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-00/1-00kluge-d.htm
Empirically based type formation in qualitative social research. By Susann Kluge (FQS)

www.sfb186.uni-bremen.de/download/paper61.pdf
Career biographical modes of organisation - A typology of orientations and actions during the transition to working life. By Andreas Witzel and Thomas Kühn

Content analysis

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-00/2-00mayring-d.htm
Qualitative content analysis. By Philipp Mayring (FQS)

Metaphors & metaphor analysis

There are two articles on this in FQS, namely
in FQS 1(1): Sketches on metaphor analysis by Rudolf Schmitt

and in FQS 1(2) (English): Metaphor Analysis in Psychology: Method, Theory, Fields of Application by Karin S. Moser.

Narrative psychology

"psych-narrative" is an English-language mailing list on narrative psychology. To subscribe, please send an email to with the following text: subscribe psych-narrative email@address

Objective hermeneutics

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-00/2-00grafwalter-d.htm
Objective hermeneutics in father research. By Matthias Graf and Heinz Walter (FQS)

PC analysis of qualitative data

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt2-02-d.htm
Topic of the FQS. Edited by Graham R. Gibbs, Susanne Friese and Wilma C. Mangabeira

info.uibk.ac.at/c108/c10803/cuqua.html
Computer-assisted qualitative analysis. By Klaus Niedermair

Programmes for the analysis of qualitative text data

www.atlasti.de/
ATLAS/ti

caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/
CAQDAS

www.qualisresearch.com/
Ethnograph v5.0

www.researchware.com/
HyperRESEARCH

www.intext.de/dindex.html
Information and links to the free programme Intext and problems working with software for PS analysis of qualitative data

www.kwalitan.net/engels/index.html
Kwalitan

www.rz.unibw-muenchen.de/%7Ep41bsmk/qmethod/
Q Method Page (freeware)

www.maxqda.de/
MAXqda (formerly WinMAX)

Aspects of the discussion of methods

Computers and (new) media

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-00/1-00jonasboos-d.htm
The archaic in computer-mediated communication. By Kai J. Jonas and Margarete Boos

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-00/1-00moes-d.htm
From text to hypertext analysis: consequences for qualitative research. By Johannes Moes

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-00/1-00kollmann-d.htm
Changes in electronic communication. What the quantitative usage figures for the new communication technologies do not reveal ... By Karl Kollmann

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-01/3-01keppler-d.htm
Media communication and cultural orientation. Perspectives on cultural studies media research
By Angela Keppler

Type formation

www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-00/1-00kluge-d.htm
Empirically based type formation in qualitative social research. By Susann Kluge

archive.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/1997/0035/top.html
ÖKOLOGISCHES GEWISSEN. A patchwork study with children and young people.
particularly interesting: Chapter 7

archive.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/1997/0035/k7.html
By Sven Sohr

www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/psych-1/witt/Archiv/ringvorlesung%2096/rvtxt4.html
Which research is normal or how normal is qualitative social research? Essay by Harald Witt :HWitt@uni-hamburg.de, full text:

www.allgemeinmedizin.med.uni-goettingen.de/literatur/Qual/QualQuantForschungsstrategien.pdf
Research strategies in quantitative and qualitative social research. By Harald Witt

docserver.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/publikationen/bisverlag/helend91/kap6.pdf
Case study Münster/Kinderhaus: The improvement of a large housing estate.

Literature links

www.quarc.de/body_literatur.html
Literature on analysing qualitative data.

info.uibk.ac.at/c108/c10803/cuqualit.html
Computer-assisted qualitative analysis Literature references

Further interesting publications and links

lib.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/iv/opac.pl?f_CLA=www&logik=AND&modus=?&t_allegro
Online full texts from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

www.zum-thema.com
On the subject: articles on various topics

www.tryoung.com/archives/archives.html
Transforming Sociology Series (Red Feather Archives)

www.psychologie.de
Journal of Psychology

Compiled by Jens Winkel