Das Paarinterview in der soziologischen Paarforschung: method(olog)ische und forschungspraktische Überlegungen
Titelübersetzung:Joint Couple Interviews in Sociological Research on Couples: Methodological and Practical Considerations
Autor/in:
Wimbauer, Christine; Motakef, Mona
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 18 (2017) 2, 35 S
Inhalt: Paarinterviews erlauben die Erfassung von Interaktionen, Aushandlungen, Performances und Präsentationen des Paares und als Paar in situ. Sie liefern Einblicke in die konkrete Paarpraxis und in die Darstellung der Praxis im Interview als doing couple, aber auch als doing gender, doing family, doing recognition oder doing inequality. Mit dem Blick auf Individuen in Paarbeziehungen mittels Paarinterviews können Macht- und Ungleichheitsverhältnisse im Paar sowie die Prozesshaftigkeit und Dynamik des Sozialen ausschnitthaft beobachtet werden. Paarinterviews werden in der nichtstandardisierten Sozialforschung zunehmend, jedoch weitaus seltener als Einzelinterviews verwendet. Bisher gibt es im deutschsprachigen Raum kaum systematische methodische und methodologische Überlegungen zum gemeinsamen Paarinterview. Basierend auf der Fassung von Paarbeziehungen als Realität sui generis und als eigenständigem Analysegegenstand zeigen wir - verortet im interpretativen Paradigma - Erkenntnisinteressen, Anwendungsbereiche und Stärken von Paarinterviews für die soziologische Paarforschung auf. Zudem präsentieren wir neben ausgewählten soziologischen Paarforschungen methodische Aspekte der Durchführung und Anwendung, method(olog)ische Grenzen von und offene method(olog)ische Fragen zum Paarinterview (nicht nur) in der soziologischen Paarforschung.
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften, Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie
Dealing with Space and Place in Standard Survey Data
Autor/in:
Hillmert, Steffen; Hartung, Andreas; Weßling, Katarina
Quelle: Survey Research Methods, 11 (2017) 3, S 267-287
Inhalt: Heterogeneity of local conditions and spatial dependencies are typical aspects of sociological phenomena. However, large-scale empirical data is often rather limited with regard to the spatial references that are (publicly) available to researchers. We describe several aspects of the problem and assess possibilities and potential errors associated with limited information. Our examples are returns to education and gender-based and migration-related wage gaps as popular research topics. We base our analyses upon widely used survey data from Germany, the GSOEP, which contains geographical information on various levels of aggregation. Our particular interest is in the decisions that have to be made with regard to problems of space and place in standard surveys, available options and consequences. We conclude with a number of practical suggestions for data users.
Die Denkstilanalyse nach Ludwik Fleck als Methode der qualitativen Sozialforschung - Theorie und Anwendung
Titelübersetzung:Thought Style Analysis According to Ludwik Fleck as a Method of Qualitative Social Research: Theory and Application
Autor/in:
Sabisch, Katja
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 18 (2017) 2, 17 S
Inhalt: Bislang fanden die methodischen Überlegungen des polnischen Mediziners und Soziologen Ludwik FLECK vor allem in wissenschaftshistorischen Studien Anwendung. In diesem Beitrag schlage ich vor, seine zentralen Begriffe des Denkstils und des Denkkollektivs in eine sozialwissenschaftliche Methode zu übersetzen. Hierzu wird zunächst die FLECKsche Terminologie anhand von Beispielen aus der Geschlechter- und Wissenschaftsforschung vorgestellt. Danach wird das denkstilanalytische Vorgehen auf die Auswertung von Expert_inneninterviews nach MEUSER und NAGEL übertragen. Das daraus resultierende Konzept einer qualitativen Denkstilanalyse wird im letzten Teil des Beitrages kritisch reflektiert.
Inhalt: To date, the methodological considerations of the Polish medical practitioner and sociologist Ludwik FLECK have been used primarily in historiography. In this article I propose to adapt his central concepts of "thought style" and "thought collective" as qualitative research methods. For this purpose, FLECK's terminology is first presented, using examples from gender and science studies. I adapt the analysis of thought styles to the analysis of expert interviews according to MEUSER and NAGEL. The resulting concept of a qualitative "thought style analysis" is critiqued in the last part of the article.
Schlagwörter:Sozialforschung; social research; qualitative Methode; qualitative method; Konstruktivismus; constructivism; Wissenssoziologie; sociology of knowledge; Wissenschaftsforschung; science studies; Denkstilanalyse; Expert_inneninterviews; Ludwik Fleck; expert interviews; thought style analysis
SSOAR Kategorie:Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Why were there three? Determinants of the presence of
an intimate partner during face-to-face interviews
Autor/in:
Preetz, Richard; Langeheine, Malte
Quelle: Survey Methods: Insights from the Field, (2017) , 17 S
Inhalt: This study analyses determinants of the presence of an intimate partner during face-to-face
interviews. Based on theoretical assumptions about opportunity structure, social control,
social support, and companionship, we investigated partner presence using data from the first
wave of the German Family Panel (pairfam). Descriptive results revealed that an intimate
partner was present in every seventh interview. Multivariate results using separate logistic
regression models for the presence of the female (n = 3,272) and the male partner (n = 2,348)
revealed that the opportunity structure, such as the couple’s living arrangements or their
employment status, had the greatest influence on the presence of both female and male
partners. Gender differences existed for social control, social support and companionship.
The results suggest that partner presence could most easily be prevented by taking into
account the opportunity structure.
Schlagwörter:soziale Kontrolle; social control; soziale Unterstützung; social support; gender-specific factors; Interview; interview; Determinanten; determinants; Messung; measurement; Antwortverhalten; response behavior; Federal Republic of Germany; Kommunikation; communication; Struktur; structure; Selbsteinschätzung; self-assessment; Selbstwertgefühl; self-esteem; Partnerschaft; partnership; interview characteristics; intimate partner; survey management; third person; pairfam
SSOAR Kategorie:Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Testing the Goodness of the EVS Gender Role Attitudes Scale
Titelübersetzung:Test de la qualité de l'échelle EVS d'attitude du rôle de genre
Autor/in:
Lomazzi, Vera
Quelle: Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, (2017) 135, S 90-100
Inhalt: This study provides a critical evaluation of the gender role attitude scale included in the fourth wave of the European Values Study. The goodness of this scale is tested considering first of all its reliability and the stability of the factorial structure. The results suggest caution in the use of this instrument: the scale presents a deep variation in reliability across countries and its configuration is not stable, displaying several different factor structures from one country to another. In considering the source of this instability, this study addresses a priming effect due to questions introduced in 2008 immediately prior to the use of the gender role attitudes scale that modified the context of response.
Gender of interviewer effects in a multitopic centralized CATI panel survey
Autor/in:
Lipps, Oliver; Lutz, Georg
Quelle: Methods, data, analyses : a journal for quantitative methods and survey methodology (mda), 11 (2017) 1, S 67-86
Inhalt: "This paper is motivated by two recent articles which show that numerous studies which analyzed
gender of interviewer effects did not take interviewer nonresponse selection effects into account. For example, interviewers may be more successful at recruiting respondents with characteristics similar to themselves and who give answers that are similar to their own, and this may result in spurious gender of interviewer effects. Our research is novel because it uses data from a large panel survey in which the same respondent is asked the same questions repeatedly by interviewers of random genders using the centralized telephone
mode. We use the panel design to show the importance of checking for all relevant variables in models where selection may cause bias. To this end, we use respondent fixed effects models as a reference to yield unbiased coefficients. We find gender of interviewer effects that are in line with social desirability theory on gender issues such as female discrimination. However, not all gender-related questions are affected by gender of interviewer effects and, in addition, we do not find any effects on political and (factual) household task related questions. In line with the notion of social distance, there is a higher likelihood that answers respondents are less comfortable with are given to interviewers of the same gender regarding (sensitive) health questions." (author's abstract)
Acquiescence response styles: A multilevel model explaining individual-level and country-level differences
Autor/in:
Rammstedt, Beatrice; Danner, Daniel; Bosnjak, Michael
Quelle: Personality and Individual Differences, 107 (2017) , S 190-194
Inhalt: Acquiescence has been found to distort the psychometric quality of questionnaire data. Previous research has identified various determinants of acquiescence at both the individual and the country level. We aimed to synthesize the scattered body of knowledge by concurrently testing a multilevel model encompassing a set of presumed predictors of acquiescence. Based on a representative sample comprising almost 40,000 respondents from 20 European countries, we analyzed the effects of the country-level indicators economic wealth, corruption level, and collectivism and the individual-level indicators age, gender, educational attainment, and conservatism. Results revealed that 15% of the variance in acquiescence was due to country-level variations in corruption levels and collectivism. Differences among individuals within countries could be partially explained by conservatism and educational attainment.
Schlagwörter:psychometrics; demographic factors; prosperity; Wertorientierung; Mehrebenenanalyse; value-orientation; Datenqualität; multi-level analysis; measurement; questionnaire; Europa; conservatism; data quality; Indikatorenbildung; soziale Faktoren; Konservatismus; Bildungsniveau; Messung; Korruption; Fragebogen; Wohlstand; Europe; attitude; social indicators; international comparison; model construction; Kollektivismus; Selbstverständnis; Bruttoinlandsprodukt; Kollektivverhalten; collectivism; Psychometrie; internationaler Vergleich; self-concept; level of education; collective behavior; construction of indicators; soziale Indikatoren; demographische Faktoren; gross domestic product; Modellentwicklung; social factors; corruption; Einstellung; ESS; European Social Survey
SSOAR Kategorie:Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Enclothed knowledge: the fashion show as a method of dissemination in arts-informed research
Titelübersetzung:Kleidungswissen: Modenschauen als Verfahren zur Verbreitung der Ergebnisse kunstbasierter Forschung
Autor/in:
Barry, Ben
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 18 (2017) 3, 23 S
Inhalt: In diesem Beitrag befasse ich mich mit dem Prozess, dem Nutzen und den Problemen, denen ich bei dem Versuch begegnet bin, eine Modenschau als Mittel zur Verbreitung der Ergebnisse aus qualitativer Forschung zu konzipieren und zu realisieren. Modenschauen erleichtern den Zugang zu einer spezifischen Datenart, die ich als "Kleiderwissen" bezeichne, und der für statische oder verbale Beschreibungen nicht bestünde. Sie sind zugleich ein Raum, in dem Wissen der Teilnehmenden zirkuliert und in dem Forschende mit unterschiedlichen Adressat/innen in Berührung kommen können. Sie müssen sich aber auch ethischer Dilemmata gewahr sein, die u.a. daraus resultieren, dass Anonymität infolge des öffentlichen Charakters von Modenschauen nicht sichergestellt werden kann und besonderer Aufmerksamkeit bedarf. Ich versuche schließlich zu zeigen, dass Modenschauen einen Beitrag zu sozialer Gerechtigkeit leisten können, da sie erlauben, enge und stereotype Verständnisse marginaler Identitäten zu transformieren.
Inhalt: In this article, I investigate the processes, benefits and dilemmas of producing a fashion show as a method of dissemination in arts-informed qualitative research. I examine a project that used a fashion show to analyze and represent interview findings about men's understandings and performances of masculinities. Fashion shows facilitate the dissemination of new qualitative data -what I coin "enclothed knowledge"- which is embodied and inaccessible through static or verbal descriptions. Fashion shows also enable participants to shape knowledge circulation and allow researchers to engage diverse audiences. Despite these benefits, researchers have to be mindful of ethical dilemmas that occur from the absence of anonymity inherent in public performances and therefore I suggest strategies to mitigate these threats to research ethics. Ultimately, I argue that fashion shows advance social justice because the platform can transform narrow, stereotypical understandings of marginalized identities.
Testing the Goodness of the EVS Gender Role Attitudes Scale
Titelübersetzung:Test de la qualité de l'échelle EVS d'attitude du rôle de genre
Autor/in:
Lomazzi, Vera
Quelle: Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, (2017) 135, S 90-100
Inhalt: This study provides a critical evaluation of the gender role attitude scale included in the fourth wave of the European Values Study. The goodness of this scale is tested considering first of all its reliability and the stability of the factorial structure. The results suggest caution in the use of this instrument: the scale presents a deep variation in reliability across countries and its configuration is not stable, displaying several different factor structures from one country to another. In considering the source of this instability, this study addresses a priming effect due to questions introduced in 2008 immediately prior to the use of the gender role attitudes scale that modified the context of response.