Gibt es Gütekriterien für qualitative Forschungsergebnisse? Eine Herausforderung für die Mixed-Methods-Forschung

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  • Martyn Hammersley The Open University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-24.1.3935

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Gütekriterien, Validität, qualitative Daten, Mixed Methods, Synthese von Forschungsergebnissen

Abstract

Die Synthese qualitativer und quantitativer Forschungsergebnisse in der Mixed-Methods-Forschung setzt eine Beurteilung der Güte beider Teilkomponenten voraus. Dabei stellt sich das Problem, dass zur Beurteilung qualitativer Forschung keine allgemein anerkannten Kriterien existieren. Die Frage der Gütekriterien wird in der methodologischen Literatur seit geraumer Zeit diskutiert. Ich argumentiere, dass eine produktive Weiterentwicklung dieser Debatte die Klärung einiger wichtiger Unterscheidungen zur Voraussetzung hat. Von besonderer Bedeutung ist dabei diejenige zwischen Standards, an denen sich die Bewertung von Forschungsergebnissen orientiert und den Indikatoren, die zur Evaluation im Sinne dieser Standards herangezogen werden. Ich beschreibe die unterschiedlichen Teilaspekte solcher Bewertungsprozesse und begründe die Annahme, dass es spezifische, unmittelbar anwendbare Indikatoren zur Validierung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse bzw. Geltungsansprüche nicht geben kann. Mein Ansatz fügt sich in den allgemeinen Rahmen der Mixed-Methods-Forschung, insofern ich die Annahme prinzipieller philosophischer Unterschiede zwischen quantitativer und qualitativer Forschung zurückweise. Allerdings widerspreche ich den auch in der Mixed-Methods-Literatur verbreiteten Positionen, die eine radikale Neudefinition der ontologischen, epistemologischen und/oder axiologischen Grundannahmen der empirischen Sozialforschung anstreben, beispielsweise in Form von transformatorischen bzw. transformativen Ansätzen.

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Martyn Hammersley, The Open University

Martyn HAMMERSLEY is emeritus professor of educational and social research at The Open University, UK. He has carried out research in the sociology of education and the sociology of the media, but much of his work has been dedicated to the methodological issues surrounding social enquiry. His books include (with Paul ATKINSON) "Ethnography: Principles in Practice" (4th ed., Routledge, 2019), "The Politics of Social Research" Sage, 1995), "Taking Sides in Social Research" (Routledge, 2000), "Questioning Qualitative Inquiry" Sage, 2008), Methodology Who Needs It?" (Sage, 2011), "The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice" (Sage, 2013), "The Radicalism of Ethnomethodology" (Manchester University Press, 2018), "The Concept of Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and "Troubling Sociological Concepts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). In FQS, he published "A Historical and Comparative Note on the Relationship Between Analytic Induction and Grounded Theorising" (https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-11.2.1400, 2010) and "Understanding a Dispute About Ethnomethodology: Watson and Sharrock's Response to Atkinson's 'Critical Review'" (https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.1.3048 2019).

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Veröffentlicht

2023-01-31

Zitationsvorschlag

Hammersley, M. (2023). Gibt es Gütekriterien für qualitative Forschungsergebnisse? Eine Herausforderung für die Mixed-Methods-Forschung. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-24.1.3935