TY - JOUR AU - Gillies, Val AU - Edwards, Rosalind PY - 2005/01/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Secondary Analysis in Exploring Family and Social Change: Addressing the Issue of Context JF - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research JA - FQS VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Issues of Context DO - 10.17169/fqs-6.1.500 UR - https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/500 SP - AB - This paper explores the issue of context in conducting secondary analysis and draws out the particular epistemological, methodological, practical and ethical challenges associated with the re-use of historically specific, contextually bound archived datasets. Focusing on the topic of change and continuity in family life, it outlines our efforts to design a method of comparing contemporary data on parents with accounts collected in the 1960s. We discuss the contextual complexities and constraints we encountered in attempting to construct a viable approach to evaluating social change through comparative historical analysis, and we describe how we sought to address these issues.URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0501444 ER -