Qualitative Methods

Article Marking and responding to the " participatory turn " in rhetorical criticism, the essays in this issue engage the synergies, tensions , and consequences that arise from intertwining rhetorical and qualitative approaches to research. From fleeting encounters to developed relationships with communities, the scholars in this special issue participate with(in) a broad range of rhetorical phenomena, engage in a diverse set of participatory research practices, and demonstrate a range of insights gained from in situ engagement with their topics of interest. This issue develops three pathways, each marking a possible point of productive engagement between rhetorical criticism and qualitative inquiry. First, in (re)introducing rhetorical fieldwork , the issue marks a landmark moment for rhetorical criticism , a time when a participatory approach to rhetorical criticism has become recognized as a valuable way to analyze embodied and emplaced rhetoric. Second, acknowledging this participatory turn necessitates some reflection on the points of overlap, tension, and mutual benefit that emerge when qualitative inquiry and rhetorical criticism look to one another for theories and critical approaches. In particular, the essays highlight how in situ rhetorical fieldwork not only falls within the bricolage of qualitative research, but also how it contributes valuable theoretical, methodological, and praxis-oriented insights to qualitative inquiry. Third, given the value of seeing exemplars of this sort of work, the selected articles offer a range of participatory approaches to critical/cultural studies that draw on a broad cross-section of qualitative and rhetorical theories and methodologies. By advancing these three pathways of conversation within this issue, the individual contributions , as well as the volume as a whole, provide a focal point for additional efforts to more robustly theorize hybrid research approaches like rhetorical fieldwork. We conclude this special issue by focusing on and jump-starting those efforts to further theorize the ways that qualitative and rhetorical inquiry can mutually inform and enhance one another, arguing for a transdisciplinary approach to criti-cal/cultural scholarship propelled by the overarching goal of answering critical questions with the best tools available. We do so by synthesizing some of the theoretical and method-ological resonances found in the essays that compose this issue. First, we return to five of the overlapping points of conversation between rhetorical criticism and qualitative inquiry that we identified in the introduction, discussing how the essays in this issue speak to these connections. Next, we contend that blending qualitative research practices with rhetorical approaches to scholarship can revitalize rhetorical praxis, especially in regard to the critical implications of rhetorical scholarship. Third, we identify some substantive contributions that attentiveness to the assumptions of rhetorical scholarship can offer to qualitative inquiry. Last, we advocate for a 655821C SCXXX10.1177/1532708616655821Cultural Studies <span class="symbol" cstyle="symbol">↔</span> Critical MethodologiesMiddleton et al. Abstract This essay concludes the special issue on the intersections between qualitative and rhetorical inquiry by responding to each of the essays. We highlight the productive tensions between rhetorical and qualitative inquiry, examine the benefits that qualitative inquiry brings to rhetorical fieldwork while also revealing how rhetorical inquiry can contribute to qualitative inquiry. We ultimately argue that rhetorical fieldwork is form of transdisciplinary research that resists replicating rhetorical and qualitative research by subsuming one approach under the other and instead creates a new form of hybrid research that adopts and adapts both research lineages.

Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive yet compact A-Z for undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking qualitative and quantitative research across the social sciences, featuring 71 entries that cover a wide range of concepts, methods, and theories.

La profession des pompiers du Québec demeure peu étudiée. Par une méthodologie inductive et mixte (qualitative et quantitative), inspirée des assises épistémologiques et méthodologiques de la MTE, nous avons réalisé un portrait de cette profession. Nous montrerons ici comment cette démarche inductive et mixte a été favorable à l’établissement de la relation de confiance et à l’appropriation de nos travaux par les pompiers québécois tout en étant bénéfique pour le développement et la saturation de nos catégories d’analyse. L’article sera divisé en trois parties. Premièrement, nous exposerons les modalités d’appropriation de l’induction et de l’itération dans une démarche de recherche mixte. Deuxièmement, nous montrerons comment les données qualitatives obtenues lors d’observations et d’entrevues ont contribué à l’élaboration d’un questionnaire de recherche. Troisièmement, nous verrons à l’aide d’exemples la pertinence d’une analyse mixte pour l’élaboration et la validation interne et externe de la théorisation.

Since the sociology of religion became recognised as a distinct sub-discipline over the last century, the dominance of approaches taking their inspiration from the sociological classics has increasingly been challenged. Empirical findings have brought the notion of secularisation into question; and theorists have sought to deconstruct how we think of ‘religion.’ This collection appraises the continuing influence of the foundational approaches and places these in relation to newly emerging directions in the field.

The book is divided into four sections, each section containing one ‘foundational’ chapter written by an established academic followed by two ‘futures’ chapters contributed by emerging scholars in the sub-discipline. These chapters complement one another by placing the overview of future directions in the context of a survey of the development of the sociology of religion over the last century. Topics discussed in these chapters include lived religion, sexuality, ritual, religion and the media.

Combining erudite examinations of the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group’s work so far with explorations of the future directions its research might take, this book is vital reading for any scholar whose work combines religious studies and sociology.

Este artículo dedicado a los procesos procreativos desde la Antropología presenta una propuesta analítica que tiene por finalidad ahondar en las estructuras básicas que subyacen en la procreación humana desde la perspectiva cultural. La propuesta trabajada en el proyecto de investigación I+D+i (Parentescos: Formas de parentalidad y articulaciones disciplinarias) se ciñe exclusivamente al periodo procreativo, permitiendo analizar nociones sobre la formación de la persona con sus atribuciones de sentido en distintos momentos del proceso (desde la concepción, la gestación y el nacimiento), los vínculos parentales y los cuidados que se le brindan al recién nacido y que son ámbito del Parentesco y de la Salud. Se ha tomado como ejemplo el modelo procreativo defendido por las mujeres que optan por un «parto respetado» en el contexto de Barcelona. Palabras clave: Metodología, proceso procreativo, reproducción humana, parentesco, noción de persona, parto respetado.

This article deals with procreative processes from an anthropological perspective and presents an analytical proposal that aims to delve into the basic structures underlying human procreation from a cultural perspective. The proposal has been developed within the R&D project Kinships: Ways of parenthood and disciplinary articulations and refers to the procreative period. It thus allows the analysis of notions concerning personhood and the attributions of meaning in different moments of the process (conception, pregnancy and birth). It also examines parental bonds and newborn care, which are part of kinship and health. As an example, the article exposes the procreative model held by women who opt for a " respectful birth " in Barcelona.

Fairy tales play a substantial role in the shaping of childhoods. Developed into stories and played out in picture books, films and tales, they are powerful instruments that influence conceptions and treatments of the child and childhoods. This article argues that traditional fairy tales and contemporary stories derived from them use complex means to mould the ways that children live and experience their childhoods. This argument is illustrated through representations of childhoods and children in a selection of stories and an analysis of the ways they act on and produce the child subjects and childhoods they convey. The selected stories are examined through different philosophical lenses, utilizing Foucault, Lyotard and Rousseau. By problematizing these selected stories, the article analyses what lies beneath the surface of the obvious meanings of the text and enticing pictures in stories, as published or performed. Finally, this article argues for a careful recognition of the complexities of stories used in early childhood settings and their powerful and multifaceted influences on children and childhoods.