Apologies for possible cross postings! Dear All, We would like to inform you that the 19th issue of the open-access journal "Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research" (FQS), edited by Hubert Knoblauch, Uwe Flick & Christoph Maeder in cooperation with Iain Lang, is available online. FQS 6(3) deals with "The State of the Art of Qualitative Research in Europe" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-05-e.htm). 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 "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. Enjoy reading! Katja Mruck FQS-Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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