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Ellis, Rachel – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Numerous articles and textbooks advise qualitative researchers on accessing "hard-to-reach" or "hidden" populations. In this article, I compare two studies that I conducted with justice-involved women in the United States: a yearlong ethnography inside a state women's prison and an interview study with formerly incarcerated…
Descriptors: Population Groups, Barriers, Institutionalized Persons, Females
Small, Mario L.; Cook, Jenna M. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
This article examines an important and thorny problem in interview research: How to assess whether what people say motivated their actions actually did so? We ask three questions: What specific challenges are at play? How have researchers addressed them? And how should those strategies be evaluated? We argue that such research faces at least five…
Descriptors: Interviews, Qualitative Research, Barriers, Deception
Rutten, Roel – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Uncertainty undermines causal claims; however, the nature of causal claims decides what counts as relevant uncertainty. Empirical robustness is imperative in regularity theories of causality. Regularity theory features strongly in QCA, making its case sensitivity a weakness. Following qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) founder Charles Ragin's…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Causal Models, Ethics
Haesebrouck, Tim – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
The field of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is witnessing a heated debate on which one of the QCA's main solution types should be at the center of substantive interpretation. This article argues that the different QCA solutions have complementary strengths. Therefore, researchers should interpret the three solution types in an integrated…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection
DeLuca, Stefanie – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Increasingly, the broader public, media and policymakers are looking to qualitative research to provide answers to our most pressing social questions. While an exciting and perhaps overdue moment for qualitative researchers, it is also a time when the method is coming under increasing scrutiny for a lack of reliability and transparency. The…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Reliability, Standards, Participant Observation
Katz, Jack – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Taking a sociological view, we can investigate the empirical consequences of variations in the rhetoric of sociological methodology. The standards advocated in Qualitative Literacy divide communities of qualitative researchers, as they are not explicitly connected to an understanding of social ontology, unlike previous qualitative methodologies;…
Descriptors: Sociology, Rhetoric, Research Methodology, Qualitative Research
Jerolmack, Colin – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Ethnographic and interview research have made significant contributions to cumulative social science and influenced the public conversation around important social issues. However, debates rage over whether the standards of positivistic social science can or should be used to judge the rigor of interpretive methods. I begin this essay by briefly…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Ethnography, Evaluation Criteria
Du?a, Adrian – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
The main objective of the qualitative comparative analysis is to find solutions that display sufficient configurations of causal conditions leading to the presence of an outcome. These solutions should be less complex than the original observed configurations, as parsimonious as possible, without sacrificing the sufficiency requirement.…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Influences, Robustness (Statistics)
Deterding, Nicole M.; Waters, Mary C. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
Qualitative coding procedures emanating from grounded theory were limited by technologies of the 1960s: colored pens, scissors, and index cards. Today, electronic documents can be flexibly stored, retrieved, and cross-referenced using qualitative data analysis (QDA) software. We argue the oft-cited grounded theory framework poorly fits many…
Descriptors: Coding, Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory, Journal Articles
Gonzalez-Ocantos, Ezequiel; LaPorte, Jody – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
Scholars who conduct process tracing often face the problem of missing data. The inability to document key steps in their causal chains makes it difficult to validate theoretical models. In this article, we conceptualize "missingness" as it relates to process tracing, describe different scenarios in which it is pervasive, and present…
Descriptors: Data, Research Problems, Qualitative Research, Causal Models
Saylor, Ryan – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
Advice on case selection in small-"N" research emphasizes controlling for confounding variables to facilitate inferential tests of a cross-case pattern. Yet many researchers embrace the "mechanismic worldview" and aim to construct explanations. Explanations differ from inferences because one explains an outcome at the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Selection, Inferences, Qualitative Research
Baumgartner, Michael; Thiem, Alrik – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
To date, hundreds of researchers have employed the method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for the purpose of causal inference. In a recent series of simulation studies, however, several authors have questioned the correctness of QCA in this connection. Some prominent representatives of the method have replied in turn that simulations…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Inferences, Evaluation Criteria
Thomann, Eva; Maggetti, Martino – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
Recent years have witnessed a host of innovations for conducting research with qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). Concurrently, important issues surrounding its uses have been highlighted. In this article, we seek to help users design QCA studies. We argue that establishing inference with QCA involves three intertwined design components:…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Research Design, Validity
Beach, Derek; Rohlfing, Ingo – Sociological Methods & Research, 2018
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the combination of two methods on the basis of set theory. In our introduction and this special issue, we focus on two variants of cross-case set-theoretic methods--"qualitative comparative analysis" (QCA) and typological theory (TT)--and their combination with process tracing (PT).…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Theories, Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis
Vis, Barbara; Dul, Jan – Sociological Methods & Research, 2018
Analyzing relationships of necessity is important for both scholarly and applied research questions in the social sciences. An often-used technique for identifying such relationships--"fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis" (fsQCA)--has limited ability to make the most out of the data used. The set-theoretical technique fsQCA makes…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Social Science Research, Theories