Volume 8, No. 3, Art. 4 – September 2007

Which Way Ahead? A Commentary on Recent Developments in German-Speaking "Qualitative" Social Research

Ronald Hitzler (Germany)

Abstract: In this commentary I will focus on issues raised in my articles published in FQS (2002 and 2005) on the present state of the discussion in German-speaking interpretive sociology to which I will add a "tour d'horizon" of the corresponding state of affairs in some neighboring disciplines. After this "tour d'horizon" I will raise the questions (a) In what direction will genuine interpretive empirical research in the social sciences move? and (b) Is interpretive empirical research able to move and all? I will conclude by discussing the answers to both of these questions and their consequences for interpretive empirical research.

Key words: debate on methods, interpretive sociology, reconstruction of meaning, sense of action

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

Volume 8, No. 3   Table of Contents

[qualitative-research.net] [Home] [Inside FQS] [Features] [Services] [Submission]
[FAQ] [Advertising] [Search FQS] [Newsletter] [Editorial Team]

© 2007 Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research
(ISSN 1438-5627)

Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft