Qualitative SociologyPub Date : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2022-08-02DOI: 10.1007/s11133-022-09519-1
Mario L Small
{"title":"Ethnography Upgraded.","authors":"Mario L Small","doi":"10.1007/s11133-022-09519-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-022-09519-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The basic practice of ethnography has essentially remained unchanged in hundreds of years. How has online life changed things? I contrast two transformative inventions, the telephone and the internet, with respect to their impact on fieldwork. I argue that our current era has created entirely new constraints and opportunities for ethnographic research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47710,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Sociology","volume":"45 3","pages":"477-482"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9344450/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40677664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qualitative SociologyPub Date : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2022-07-16DOI: 10.1007/s11133-022-09509-3
Jeffrey Lane, Jessa Lingel
{"title":"Digital Ethnography for Sociology: Craft, Rigor, and Creativity.","authors":"Jeffrey Lane, Jessa Lingel","doi":"10.1007/s11133-022-09509-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-022-09509-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This special issue gathers empirical papers that develop and employ digital ethnographic methods to answer core sociological questions related to community, culture, urban life, violence, activism, professional identity, health, and sociality. Each paper, in its own right, offers key sociological insights, and as a collection, this special issue demonstrates the need to bring ethnographic methods to digital communities, interactions, practices, and tools. Both as a topic and a methodological approach, \"the digital\" points us to the need to update, rethink, and grow qualitative sociology. The exemplary papers comprising this special issue exhibit this curiosity and expansiveness, with lessons and implications for an interdisciplinary set of fields and research problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":47710,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Sociology","volume":"45 3","pages":"319-326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9287130/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40631990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qualitative SociologyPub Date : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2022-07-28DOI: 10.1007/s11133-022-09515-5
Tyler Baldor
{"title":"Do I Know You? Managing Offline Interaction in Acquainted Stranger Relationships.","authors":"Tyler Baldor","doi":"10.1007/s11133-022-09515-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-022-09515-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sociology has a long history of analyzing relationships between strangers in everyday life. The ubiquity of social media and mobile technologies, however, necessitates refined theories of how people relate to and interact with strangers in a social world where online and offline contexts are intertwined. This study examines public encounters between acquainted strangers, a type of connection fostered through social media wherein people are both digital acquaintances and offline strangers. Drawing on ethnographic data of queer men who use mobile dating and hookup apps, I find that queer men experience these encounters as routine yet problematic, which past theories of stranger relationships cannot fully explain. I argue that offline interactions with acquainted strangers amplify interactional uncertainties around identification (e.g. \"I know them, but do they know me?\") and recognition (e.g. \"What are the moral demands of our relationship?\"). Managing these uncertainties is socially significant as the decision to regard or ignore an acquainted stranger marks not only interpersonal acceptance/rejection but also broader forms of belonging and exclusion. These findings underscore how mobile technologies are fundamentally transforming what it means to be a \"stranger.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":47710,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Sociology","volume":"45 3","pages":"353-370"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9330980/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40577053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symposium: What is Qualitative about Qualitative Research?","authors":"Claudio E Benzecry, A. Deener","doi":"10.1007/s11133-021-09502-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-021-09502-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47710,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Sociology","volume":"44 1","pages":"565 - 565"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44218471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Qualitative Research” Is a Moving Target","authors":"Paul R. Lichterman","doi":"10.1007/s11133-021-09499-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-021-09499-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47710,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Sociology","volume":"44 1","pages":"583 - 590"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41458992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power, Positionality, and the Ethic of Care in Qualitative Research","authors":"J. Reich","doi":"10.1007/s11133-021-09500-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-021-09500-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47710,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Sociology","volume":"44 1","pages":"575 - 581"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46726532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is “Qualitative” in Qualitative Research? Why the Answer Does not Matter but the Question is Important","authors":"M. Small","doi":"10.1007/s11133-021-09501-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-021-09501-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47710,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Sociology","volume":"44 1","pages":"567 - 574"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49389678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redemption Performance in Exoneration and Parole: Two Pathways Home","authors":"Chloe Haimson","doi":"10.1007/s11133-021-09495-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-021-09495-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47710,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Sociology","volume":"45 1","pages":"241 - 269"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47079678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}