FQS-Newsletter September 2005

Dear All,

I would like to inform you that the 19th FQS Issue—"The State of the Art of Qualitative Research in Europe" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-05-e.htm), edited by Hubert Knoblauch, Uwe Flick & Christoph Maeder in cooperation with Iain Lang—is available online. The contributions provide unique insights into the variety and richness of qualitative social research in Europe (without limiting the issue to a solely European perspective). As always, in addition to articles relating to "The State of the Art of Qualitative Research in Europe," FQS 6(3) also provides selected single contributions and articles that belong to the FQS Debate on Qualitative Research and Ethics, to FQS Reviews, and to FQS Conferences.

FQS 6(3) The State of the Art of Qualitative Research in Europe
Inside FQS:
- Call for Book Reviewers
- Documents, 1st Berlin Meeting on Qualitative Research Methods
From our Readers
Conferences
Open Access News

Enjoy reading!

Katja Mruck

A) FQS 6(3) THE STATE OF THE ART OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN EUROPE

http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-05-e.htm English
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt3-05-d.htm German
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/inhalt3-05-s.htm Spanish

Katja Mruck, César A. Cisneros Puebla & Robert Faux: Editorial: About Qualitative Research Centers and Peripheries
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-49-e.htm
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-49-s.htm

Hubert Knoblauch, Uwe Flick (Germany) & Christoph Maeder (Switzerland): Qualitative Methods in Europe: The Variety of Social Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-34-e.htm

1. General Methodological Trends in Qualitative Research

Paul Atkinson (UK): Qualitative Research—Unity and Diversity
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-26-e.htm

Giampietro Gobo (Italy): The Renaissance of Qualitative Methods
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-42-e.htm

David Silverman (UK): Instances or Sequences? Improving the State of the Art of Qualitative Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-30-e.htm

2. National Overviews: Qualitative Methods in Various European Countries in Comparison to the U.S.

Johannes Angermueller (Germany): "Qualitative" Methods of Social Research in France: Reconstructing the Actor, Deconstructing the Subject
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-19-e.htm

Ronald Hitzler (Germany): The Reconstruction of Meaning. Notes on German Interpretive Sociology
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-45-e.htm

Shalva Weil (Israel): Qualitative Methods in Israel
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-46-e.htm

Attila Bruni & Giampietro Gobo (Italy): Qualitative Research in Italy
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-41-e.htm

Dirk Schubotz (Northern Ireland): Beyond the Orange and the Green. The Diversification of the Qualitative Social Research Landscape in Northern Ireland
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-29-e.htm

Krzysztof T. Konecki, Anna M. Kacperczyk & Lukasz T. Marcianiak (Poland): Polish Qualitative Sociology. The General Features and Development
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-27-e.htm

Frane Adam & Darka Podmenik (Slovenia): Qualitative Research in a Changing Epistemic Context. The Case of a Small Social Science Community
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-40-e.htm

Miguel S. Valles & Alejandro Baer (Spain): Qualitative Social Research in Spain: Past, Present, and Future. A Portrait
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-18-e.htm
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-18-s.htm

Thomas S. Eberle & Florian Elliker (Switzerland): A Cartography of Qualitative Research in Switzerland
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-24-e.htm

Karen Henwood & Iain Lang (UK): Qualitative Social Science in the UK: A Reflexive Commentary on the "State of the Art"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-48-e.htm

Uwe Flick (Germany): Qualitative Research in Sociology in Germany and the US—State of the Art, Differences and Developments
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-23-e.htm

Margarethe Kusenbach (USA): Across the Atlantic: Current Issues and Debates in US Ethnography
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-47-e.htm

3. Innovations in Special Methods

Reiner Keller (Germany): Analysing Discourse. An Approach From the Sociology of Knowledge
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-32-e.htm

Hubert Knoblauch (Germany): Focused Ethnography
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-44-e.htm

Kai-Olaf Maiwald (Germany): Competence and Praxis: Sequential Analysis in German Sociology
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-31-e.htm

Eva Nadai & Christoph Maeder (Switzerland): Fuzzy Fields. Multi-Sited Ethnography in Sociological Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-28-e.htm

Michaela Pfadenhauer (Germany): Ethnography of Scenes. Towards a Sociological Life-world Analysis of (Post-traditional) Community-building
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-43-e.htm

Single Contributions

Karen Cronick (Venezuela): A Rhetorical and Hermeneutic Analysis of Texts Related to Alcohol Use
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-8-e.htm
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-8-s.htm

Anat Kainan, Michal Rozenberg, Miri Munk & Nurit Eilam (Israel): The Descendants of Time and the Lodgers of Space: The Life Stories of Teacher Trainees who Immigrated to Israel During the 1990s
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-10-e.htm

Andrea Lauser (Germany): Locating Ethnography and Global Processes
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-7-e.htm

Wiebke Lohfeld (USA): Fight for Recognition. The Portrait of the German Physician Paula TOBIAS (1886-1970). A Reconstructive Biographical Analysis
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-22-e.htm

Katie MacMillan (UK): More Than Just Coding? Evaluating CAQDAS in a Discourse Analysis of News Texts
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-25-e.htm

Marcello Maneri (Italy) & Jessika ter Wal (The Netherlands): The Criminalisation of Ethnic Groups: An Issue for Media Analysis
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-9-e.htm

Henning van den Brink (Germany): Cooperation Relationships in Community Prevention Committees—Neglected by Qualitative Social Research?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-20-e.htm

FQS Debate: "Qualitative Research and Ethics"

Lisa J. Blodgett, Wanda Boyer & Emily Turk (Canada): "No thank you, not today": Supporting Ethical and Professional Relationships in Large Qualitative Studies
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-35-e.htm

Rowhea Elmesky (USA): Rethinking Qualitative Research: Research Participants as Central Researchers and Enacting Ethical Practices as Habitus
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-36-e.htm

Michelle K. McGinn (Canada): Ethical and Friendly Researchers, but not Insiders: A Response to Blodgett, Boyer, and Turk
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-37-e.htm

Catherine Milne (USA): On Being Authentic: A Response to "No thank you, not today": Supporting Ethical and Professional Relationships in Large Qualitative Studies
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-38-e.htm

Kathryn Scantlebury (USA): Maintaining Ethical and Professional Relationships in Large Qualitative Studies: A Quixotic Ideal?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-39-e.htm

FQS Reviews

Michael Appel (Germany): Review, Birgit Griese, Hedwig Rose Griesehop & Martina Schiebel (Eds.) (2004). Perspektiven qualitativer Sozialforschung. Beitraege des 1. und 2. Bremer Workshops. Werkstattberichte des INBL 14 [Perspectives of Qualitative Research. Contributions to Workshops One and Two in Bremen. Notes on the Workshops of the INBL 14]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-1-e.htm

Robin M. Boylorn (USA): Review, Ina-Maria Greverus, Sharon MacDonald, Regina Romhild, Gisela Welz & Helena Wullf (Eds.) (2002). Stability Upon Shifting Ground: Review Note of Shifting Grounds: Experiments in Doing Ethnography
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-17-e.htm

Charles Lee Cole (USA): Review, Paul ten Have (2004). Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-12-e.htm

Birgit Huber (Germany): No More Separation between Paid Work and Leisure? Methodological and Empirical Challenges in the Debate about Post-Fordism. Review Essay, Sabine Hess & Johannes Moser (Eds.) (2003). Kultur der Arbeit – Kultur der neuen Oekonomie. Kulturwissenschaftliche Beitraege zu neoliberalen Arbeits- und Lebenswelten [Culture of Work—Culture of the New Economy. Cultural Studies in European Ethnology about Spheres of Working and Living in a Neo-liberal Society]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-2-e.htm

Marilyn Lichtman (USA): Review, Janet Heaton (2004). Reworking Qualitative Data
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-15-e.htm

Marilyn Lichtman (USA): Review, Mechthild Kiegelmann & Leo Guertler (Eds.) (2003). Research Questions and Matching Methods of Analysis
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-16-e.htm

Ralf Ottermann (Germany): Constructivism is the Invention of a Critic. Review Essay, Heinz v. Foerster & Bernhard Poerksen (2004). Wahrheit ist die Erfindung eines Luegners. Gespraeche fuer Skeptiker [Understanding Systems: Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics. New York: Kluwer]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-3-e.htm

Rudolf Schmitt (Germany): Review, Susan Geideck & Wolf-Andreas Liebert (Eds.) (2003). Sinnformeln. Linguistische und soziologische Analysen von Leitbildern, Metaphern und anderen kollektiven Orientierungsmustern [Meaning Formulas. Linguistic and Sociological Analysis of Models, Metaphors and Other Collective Patterns of Orientation]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-4-e.htm

Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel (Germany): Review, Ronald Hitzler & Jo Reichertz (Eds.) (2003). Irritierte Ordnung. Die gesellschaftliche Verarbeitung von Terror [Irritated System. The Social Processing of Terror]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-21-e.htm

Kara M. Strobel (Canada): After the Aftermath: A Reply to Wolff-Michael Roth's Review of Harry F. Wolcott's "Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath" published in FQS 5(1)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-6-e.htm

Wayne Thexton (UK): Review, Birgitta Qvarsell & Christoph Wulf (Eds.) (2003). Culture and Education. European Studies in Education (Volume 16)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-14-e.htm

Nicole Westmarland (UK): Review, Lesley Noaks & Emma Wincup (2004). Criminological Research—Understanding Qualitative Methods / Mark R. Pogrebin (Ed.) (2003). Qualitative Approaches to Criminal Justice—Perspectives from the Field
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-13-e.htm

FQS Conferences

Lars Allolio-Naecke (Germany): How Much Culture is Psychology Able to Deal With? Conference Report, "The 100 Years of the German Society of Psychology"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-11-e.htm

Silke-Birgitta Gahleitner & Leo Guertler (Germany): Conference Report, Fifth Annual Meeting of Qualitative Psychology: "Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Learning and Instruction" / First meeting of the Special Interest Group No. 17 of the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI): "Mixed Methodology in Psychological Research"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-33-e.htm

Thomas Kuehn (Germany): The Hunt for the Nibelungen Treasure. Report BVM Conference, "Qualitative Market Research—State of the Art and Prospects"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-5-e.htm

B) INSIDE FQS

1. Because the next issue published in January 2006 will be Special Issue: FQS Reviews IV, [as we did in the past with the issue FQS 2(2), 3(4) and 5(1)], the editors would like to invite any interested readers of FQS to contribute. If you would like to write a book review (within a brief turnaround time!), please contact our chief book review editor, Guenter Mey (mey@qualitative-forschung.de).

2. Documents (PDF files and video files) for the 1st Berlin Meeting on Qualitative Research Methods, organized in June 2005 at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, are available at http://www.berliner-methodentreffen.de/material/2005/materialien_2005.php (German language).

C) FROM OUR READERS

Sage Publications on Biographical Research Methods

Question, concerning Delphi Technique

Quantitative and qualitative research

D) CONFERENCES

17-18 October, Centre for Qualitative Research, Bournemouth University, UK
Masterclass "Developing a Performative Social Science for Qualitative Researchers"
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ihcs/researchCQRkip.html

10-11 March 2006, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
International Workshop "Event and Process in Organized Discourse"
http://www.law-in-action.de/

10-12 March 2006, University of Crete, Medical School, Heraklion, Greece
2nd International Nonlinear Science Conference "Research and Application in Behavioral, Social and Life Sciences"
http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/insc/2006/

2-5 April 2006, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
12th International Qualitative Health Research Conference QHR 2006 "Understanding Differing Perspectives in Health and Health Care"
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/QHR2006.cfm

See http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm (English) and http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-d.htm (German) for additional Conference Announcements.

E) LINKS

The Eurasia Program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC): 2006 Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/eurasia/

Edited volume "Auto/Biography and Auto/Ethnography", non-printable PDF version of the book is fully downloadable for free
http://www.sensepublishers.com/books/bver/bver.htm#9077874-04-6

Humbul Humanities Hub, launch of an online collection, Internet Resources for Modern Languages
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/langlit-all/booklet/

Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
http://www.csulb.edu/voaha/

F) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

The September SPARC Open Access Newsletter is available online at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-05.htm.

Conferences

28-30 September 2005, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
8th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations
http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/etd2005.html

20-22 October 2005, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
4th CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
http://oai4.web.cern.ch/OAI4/

22 October 2005, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
First Workshop on Eprints in Library and Information Science
http://www.aepic.it/conf/index.php?cf=4

4-5 November 2005, The Hague, The Netherlands
International Conference "Preserving the Digital Heritage: Principles and Policies"
http://www.unesco.nl/main_6-3.php

7 -9 February 2006, Bielefeld, Germany
8th International Bielefeld Conference "Academic Library and Information Services—New Paradigms for the Digital Age"
http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de

14-16 June 2006, Bansko (Bulgaria)
10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing ELPUB 2006 "Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture"
http://www.elpub.net/

Texts

OECD, DIRECTORATE FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (2005). DIGITAL BROADBAND CONTENT: SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/oecd_sci.pdf

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 59
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

Journals/Newsletter

Current Issues in Education, new texts

http://cie.asu.edu/volume8/index.html

First Monday, 10(9)

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_9/

Ideologies of War and Terror, new texts

http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/

JEMIE. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
http://www.ecmi.de/jemie/indextitle.html

Knowledge Management for Development Journal, 1(2)
http://www.km4dev.org/journal/index.php/km4dj/issue/current

Kritikos: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text and Image, new texts
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~nr03/work.htm

Living Reviews in European Governance
http://europeangovernance.livingreviews.org/

Nebula 2.3
http://www.nobleworld.biz/

Postmodern Culture, 15(3)
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/

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