Historical Social Research / Historische SozialforschungHSR Vol. 33 (2008) No. 3 – Focus: Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data
Andreas Witzel & Irena Medjedović & Susanne Kretzer (Eds.)
Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data/Sekundäranalyse qualitativer Daten
Since the mid-1990s, there has been growing recognition of and interest in the potential for carrying out secondary analysis of qualitative data. Nevertheless the secondary analysis of qualitative data is still nearly unknown within the scientific community.
Applying new perspectives to ‘old’ data offers the potential for generating new insights and theories, answering still open and specific questions as well as evaluating research results. Combining and comparing different data sets promotes a cumulative research process and the generalisability of research results. These advantages of secondary analysis can be facilitated by manifold existing tools. However, there are a number of epistemological, methodological, ethical and confidentiality issues which have to be considered.
This HSR-FOCUS discusses the opportunities presented by such a research strategy, and gives an introduction to the debate. It addresses the organisational issues connected with the provision of services and establishing a data sharing culture. The 10 contributions refer to the concept of secondary analysis, to its application by means of concrete examples, as well as to the special issues and solutions surrounding this research strategy from the perspective of consulted experts.
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CONTENTS
Günter Mey & Katja Mruck Vorwort: Sekundäranalyse qualitativer Daten. Von der Peripherie ins Zentrum, S. 7
Andreas Witzel & Irena Medjedović & Susanne Kretzer Sekundäranalyse qualitativer Daten. Zum gegenwärtigen Stand einer neuen Forschungsstrategie, S. 10
Janet Heaton Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data. An Overview, S. 33
Mike Savage Changing Social Class Identities in Post-War Britain: Perspectives from Mass-Observation, S. 46
David Kynaston The Uses of Sociology for Real-time History, S. 68
Nigel G. Fielding & Jane L. Fielding Resistance and Adaptation to Criminal Identity: Using Secondary Analysis to Evaluate Classic Studies of Crime and Deviance, S. 75
Monique Janneck Auf verschlungenen Forschungspfaden: Erfahrungen mit der Sekundärnutzung qualitativer Interviewdaten in induktiven, deduktiven und Triangulationsverfahren, S. 94
Jochen Gläser & Grit Laudel Creating Competing Constructions by Reanalysing Qualitative Data, S. 115
Irena Medjedović & Andreas Witzel Secondary Analysis of Interviews: Using Codes and Theoretical Concepts from the Primary Study, S. 148
Harry van den Berg Reanalyzing Qualitative Interviews from Different Angles: The Risk of Decontextualization and Other Problems of Sharing Qualitative Data, S. 179
Irena Medjedović Sekundäranalyse qualitativer Interviewdaten – Problemkreise und offene Fragen einer neuen Forschungsstrategie, S. 193
Mixed Issue
Articles
Nina Baur Was kann die Soziologie methodisch von der Geschichtswissenschaft lernen? S. 217
Steven King Friendship, Kinship and Belonging in the Letters of Urban Paupers 1800-1840, S. 249
Jan Kok & Hilde Bras Clustering and Dispersal of Siblings in the North-Holland Countryside, 1850-1940, S. 278
Monika Röther Pop Songs for the Tape Recorder, LPs for the Record Player? The Market Launch of Tape Recorders in West Germany and the Copyright Debate on Young Consumers’ Practice of Tape-recording in the 1950s and 1960s, S. 301
Andrew Devenney Regional Resistance to European Integration: The Case of the Scottish National Party, 1961-1972, S. 319
Cliometrics
Tapas Mishra & Mamata Parhi & Claude Diebolt Human Capital Accumulation and Spatial TFP Interdependence, S. 346