Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 33 (2008), 3

Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung
HSR 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