Volume 5, No. 2, Art. 15 – May 2004

Conference Note:

Lesarten qualitativer Forschung – Methoden-Workshop [Readings of Qualitative Research—Methods Workshop]

November 28th and 29th, 2003
Centre for Women's, Gender and Queer Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany
organized by Marianne Pieper and Stevie Meriel Schmiedel

Lisa Pfahl & Boris Traue (Germany)

Abstract: At the workshop, the relationship of poststructuralist and postmodernist social theory to the theoretical and methodological positions of interpretive sociology were discussed. A number of presentations contributed methodological reflections from biographical research and (Foucauldian) discourse analysis; others discussed results of the application of discourse analysis and deconstruction in empirical research. All in all, it seems that (German) biographical researchers have partly recognized and incorporated deconstructionist critique into their enquiries. The workshop has shown there is still a need for reflection on how poststructuralist strategies can inform empirical projects on a practical level.

Key words: qualitative research, biographical research, discourse analysis, deconstruction, methodology of interpretive social science

This contribution is only available as a full text in the German language. German text

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