"This book is a step-by-step guide for new and experienced social science researchers looking to use interviews in their projects. Rosalind Edwards and Janet Holland explain a range of interview types and practices, providing real research examples as informative illustrations of qualitative interviewing in practice, and the use of a range of creative interview tools. ... The authors explore the use of new technologies as well as issues around asking and listening, and power dynamics in research. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book concludes with an updated annotated bibliography of key texts and journals in the field"--
Based on a large-scale qualitative longitudinal study of the life course conducted in the UK (Timescapes Study), this unique collection reveals close-up--and in their own words--the experiences of children and young people, parents, and older generations. The participants' lives and times are explored through multiple accounts of their changing trajectories. Collectively, the contributions examine family and generational relationships in all their complexity as they change and develop. Tackling a diverse group of people from varied backgrounds and geographical locations, each individual chapter is concerned with particular stages of the life course, delivering policy-relevant findings to address individual and family lives over time. "Understanding Families Over Time" also has a methodological twist: change and continuity through biographical, historical and generational time are integral aspects of the overall study
Based on a large-scale qualitative longitudinal study of the life course conducted in the UK (Timescapes Study), this unique collection reveals close-up ₆ and in their own words ₆ the experiences of children and young people, parents, and older generations. The participants lives and times are explored through multiple accounts of their changing trajectories. Collectively, the contributions examine family and generational relationships in all their complexity as they change and develop. Tackling a diverse group of people from varied backgrounds and geographical locations, each individual chapter is concerned with particular stages of the life course, delivering policy-relevant findings to address individual and family lives over time. "Understanding Families Over Time" also has a methodological twist: change and continuity through biographical, historical and generational time are integral aspects of the overall study
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. What is Qualitative Interviewing? is an accessible and comprehensive 'what is' and 'how to' methods book. It is distinctive in emphasising the importance of good practice in understanding and undertaking qualitative interviews within the framework of a clear philosophical position. Rosalind Edwards and Janet Holland provide clear and succinct explanations of a range of philosophies and theories of how to know about the social world, and a thorough discussion of how to go about researching it using interviews. A series of short chapters explain and illustrate a range of interview types and practices. Drawing on their own and colleagues' experiences Holland and Edwards provide real research examples as informative illustrations of qualitative interviewing in practice, and the use of a range of creative interview tools. They discuss the use of new technologies as well as tackling enduring issues around asking and listening and power dynamics in research. Written in a clear and accessible style the book concludes with a useful annotated bibliography of key texts and journals in the field. What is Qualitative Interviewing? provides a vital resource for both new and experienced social science researchers across a range of disciplines.
Dieser Artikel befasst sich mit "Timescapes: Changing Relationships and Identities Through the Lifecourse", der ersten und in dieser Weise einzigen Forschung in Großbritannien, die (gefördert durch das Economic and Social Research Council) als groß angelegte qualitative Längsschnittstudie konzipiert ist und durchgeführt wird. Die Studie ist verortet in dem Kontext spezifischer Debatten um Archivierung, Sekundär- und Reanalyse qualitativer Daten, und sie leistet wesentliche Beiträge zu all diesen Themenbereichen. Im Sinne einer Forschungs- und Archivierungspraxis kann sie als Modell für sehr große qualitative Längsschnittuntersuchungen dienen. Die Studie besteht aus neun Teilprojekten, die an insgesamt fünf britischen Universitäten angesiedelt sind. Sieben empirische Projekte befassen sich mit Teilen der Lebenslaufs und bilden – auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen integriert – das Gesamt der Studie. Übergreifende Ziel ist die Untersuchung des Wandels von Beziehungen und Identität(en) im Lebenslauf. Kernstück des Längsschnittcharakters der Studie ist der Umgang mit Zeit bzw. die Frage, wie Kontinuität und Wandel über die Zeit so im Design realisiert werden, dass sie zentraler Fokus der analytischen Aufmerksamkeit und konzeptueller Kern der Forschungsarbeit sind. In unserem Fall hat dieses Anliegen auch Eingang bereits in den Titel der Studie erhalten: Ein "timescape" ist eine spezifische zeitliche Perspektive, die einen mikro-zeitlichen Weltausschnitt in den Vordergrund stellt und so – in unserem Fall – Einblick in die dynamische Entfaltung von Alltagsleben erlaubt. Zeitlichkeit, deren unterschiedliche Bedeutungen, die Art und Weise, wie verschiedene Zeiten ineinander verwoben sind und sich herausschälen, ist Kernstück unseres Forschungsinteresses, wobei drei große "timescapes" für uns besonders relevant sind, nämlich eine biografische, eine generationale und eine historische Zeitperspektive. In dem Beitrag wird die konzeptuelle und empirische Basis des Projekts vorgestellt, dessen Beitrag zu einer Methodologie qualitative Längsschnittforschung diskutiert und das Archiv beschrieben, dass zur dauerhaften Datenhaltung und -pflege derzeit aufgebaut wird.
In this article, the authors draw on two qualitative, longitudinal studies of young people's transitions to adulthood and how they construct these transitions over time in social, cultural and material terms. The authors focus on the hopes, anxieties and imagined futures of young women. They discuss the individualization thesis, and the contradiction for female individualization between expectations of equality and the reality of inequality between the genders. The debate is moved beyond 'pitiful girls' and 'can-do girls' by exploring how young women in the UK and Finland anticipate and try to avoid being locked into the lives of adult women.
Three major emphases in interpretations of the state of contemporary intimate relationships can be broadly characterised. These are (i) breakdown and demoralisation; (ii) individualisation and democratisation; and (iii) a recognition of elements of continuity, particularly around power relations. We consider these three positions, which are not necessarily mutually exclusive, relating them to key themes of identities and values, networks and trust and reciprocity, and major theorisations of the concept of social capital. We offer a critique of existing positions and suggestions for the future, cast in the light of potential policy relevance.
Feminist Methodology is an accessible and timely book which demonstrates how feminist approaches to methodology engage with debates in western philosophy to raise critical questions about knowledge production. The text: * shows that feminist methodology has a distinctive place in social research * guides the reader through the terrain of feminist methodology, disentangling confusion and clarifying how feminists can claim knowledge of gendered social existence * connects abstract issues of theory with practical issues of fieldwork