Conference Essay: Tackling Problems of Qualitative Social Research: A Conversation

Abstract: This paper comprises discussions from a residential symposium, "Methods in Dialogue", that took place near Cambridge, UK, in May 2005. The symposium concluded a series of seminars organised by the London East Research Institute and the Centre for Narrative Research at the University of East London and supported by the Economic and Social Research Council. Public support for social research increasingly depends on its ability to deliver scientifically valid and reliable studies to guide policy and practice. The theoretical foundations of social research, however, seem to be in a critical state. Evidence generated by both qualitative and quantitative methods is more and more seen to be conflicting, open to many interpretations. The aim of the event was to bring together qualitative researchers in the social sciences, many working in the field of narrative but also a number working with life history and auto/biography, discourse analysis, grounded theory methodology, visual methods an.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/374

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Conference Essay: Tackling Problems of Qualitative Social Research: A Conversation ; volume:9 ; number:1 ; day:31 ; month:01 ; year:2008 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 9, Heft 1 (31.01.2008)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Ruppel, Paul Sebastian ; Dege, Martin ; Andrews, Molly ; Squire, Corinne

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-9.1.374
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0801416
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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