Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation. This type of research typically involves in-depth interviews, focus groups, or observations in order to collect data that is rich in detail and context. Qualitative research is often used to explore complex phenomena or to gain insight into people's experiences and perspectives on a particular topic. It is particularly useful when researchers want to understand the meaning that people attach to their experiences or when they want to uncover the underlying reasons for people's behavior. Qualitative methods include ethnography, grounded theory, discourse analysis, and interpretative phenomenological analysis. Qualitative research methods have been used in sociology, anthropology, political science, psychology, communication studies, social work, folklore, educational research, information science and software engineering research.
Youth & Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of sociology. The journal's editor is Marc Zimmerman. It has been in publication since 1969 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Autoethnography is a form of ethnographic research in which a researcher connects personal experiences to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings. It is considered a form of qualitative and/or arts-based research.
Qualitative Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering qualitative research methods in the fields of sociology and other social sciences. It was established in 2001 and is published by SAGE Publications. The founding editors were Sara Delamont and P. Atkinson. The current editors-in-chief are Bella Dicks, Karen Henwood, and William Housley.
The British Journal of Sociology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1950 at the London School of Economics. It represents the mainstream of sociological thinking and research and publishes high quality papers on all aspects of the discipline, by academics from all over the world.
Social Studies of Science is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers relating to the history and philosophy of science. The journal's editors-in-chief are Nicole Nelson, Associate Professor in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Sergio Sismondo, Professor of Philosophy and Arts & Sciences at Queen's University. The journal was established in 1971 under the name Science Studies and assumed its present title in 1975. It is currently published by SAGE Publications.
East European Politics and Societies is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary academic journal devoted to politics, histories, cultures, and societies of Europe's post-Communist countries, excluding Russia. The journal's editors-in-chief are James Krapfl and Lavinia Stan. It was established in 1986 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Evaluation Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Social Sciences. The journal's editor is Jacob Klerman. It was first published in 1977 by SAGE Publications, who continue to publish the journal today.
Field Methods is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Social Sciences. The journal's editor is H. Russell Bernard. It has been in publication since 1989 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Journal of Adolescent Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Psychology. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The journal's editor is Nancy L. Deutsch. It has been in publication since 1986 and is currently published by SAGE Publications. Research published in this journal specialize in qualitative and mixed-method research focusing on adolescent and emerging adult development from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
The Journal of Management Inquiry is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of management with an emphasis on qualitative research, inductive reasoning and "non-traditional" research, and thought-provoking articles meant to generate academic conversations in their field. The journal's editors-in-chief are Richard W. Stackman and Pablo Martin De Holan. It was established in 1992 and is currently published by SAGE Publications. It is the official journal of the Western Academy of Management, an independent affiliate of the Academy of Management.
The Journal of Mixed Methods Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Research Methods. The journal's editors are Michael D. Fetters and Jose F. Molina-Azorin. It has been in publication since 2007 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Television & New Media is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of communication. The journal's editors are Diane Negra and Jonathan Corpus Ong. It has been in publication since 2000 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
The Journal of Sport & Social Issues is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of sociology. The journal's editor is C. L. Cole. It has been in publication since 1977 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Social Science Computer Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the use of computers in the field of social science, including artificial intelligence, computer simulation, and electronic modelling. The founding editors-in-chief were G. Garson and Ronald Anderson. The current editor-in-chief is Deana A. Rohlinger. It was established in 1983 and is published by SAGE Publications in association with the Social Science Computing Association.
Norman Kent Denzin was an American professor of sociology. He was an emeritus professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he was research professor of communications, College of Communications scholar, professor of sociology, professor of cinema studies, professor in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Denzin's academic interests included interpretive theory, performance studies, qualitative research methodology, and the study of media, culture and society.
The International Journal of Qualitative Methods is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering research methods with respect to qualitative and mixed methods research. It was established in 2002 and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the University of Alberta's International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, of which it is the official journal. The editor-in-chief is Linda Liebenberg. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 2.257, ranking it 17th out of 98 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary".
Janice Margaret Morse in Blackburn, Lancs., UK to New Zealand parents. She is an anthropologist and nurse researcher who is best known as the founder and chief proponent of the field of qualitative health research. She has taught in the United States and Canada. She received PhDs in transcultural nursing and in anthropology at the University of Utah, where she later held the Ida May “Dotty” Barnes and D Keith Barnes Presidential Endowed Chair in the College of Nursing at University of Utah,. She is also an Emerita Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah and Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta. She is founder of three journals and created four scholarly book series on qualitative research. She was Founding Director of the International Institute of Qualitative Methodology at University of Alberta, the longest standing research institute on qualitative inquiry in the world.
Kathleen Marian Charmaz was the developer of constructivist grounded theory, a major research method in qualitative research internationally and across many disciplines and professions. She was professor emerita of sociology at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, and former director of its Faculty Writing Program. Charmaz’s background was in occupational therapy and sociology. Charmaz’s areas of expertise included grounded theory, symbolic interactionism, chronicity, death and dying, qualitative health research, scholarly writing, sociological theory, social psychology, research methods, health and medicine, aging, sociology of emotions, and the body.
Art-based research is a mode of formal qualitative inquiry that uses artistic processes in order to understand and articulate the subjectivity of human experience.
