Methods and Inequality. Secondary Analyses on the Meaning of Social Differences in Qualitative Research Interviews

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Carsten G. Ullrich
• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research ; Sociological Theory
• Term: from 2018 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 410456107

• Final Report Year: 2024

Final Report Abstract

The present project is a continuation of the project "Questions in qualitative interviews". The central research interest was the question of how (and which) social (inequality) characteristics can affect the type of answers in qualitative interviews. On the one hand, social differences were understood intersectionally (with the focus on education and gender). On the other hand, it was assumed that corresponding differences are not effective "in themselves" but are only made relevant in and through interactions. For this reason, the interactive production of differences and affiliations was also taken into account in the interview, as far as this was possible. As in the previous project, the central textual feature investigated was the text types generated in respondents' answers and verifiable there. These were examined using different forms of analysis, ranging from simple identifications and descriptions (of text types) to elaborate sequence analyses of longer interview interactions. Once again, interview transcripts stored in social science data archives were used as data material, which were analyzed with regard to the aforementioned relations.

Publications

• „Fragen in qualitativen Interviews – Lessons Learned aus der sekundäranalytischen Methodenforschung“ – projektspezifischer Workshop an der UDE (s.u.)
  Carsten G. Ullrich
  
• „Fragen, Antworten und die multiplen Gesichter des Dissens – Empirische und methodologische Erkenntnisse im Kontext qualitativer Forschungsinterviews“ – Vortrag beim 70. Arbeitskreis Angewandte Gesprächsforschung in Luzern
  Carsten G. Ullrich
  
• „Soziale Unterschiede und Textsortengestaltung: Perspektivierungen von Agency in biographischen Erzählungen“ – projektspezifischer Workshop an der UDE (s.u.)
  Carsten G. Ullrich
  
• „Textsorten und soziale Unterschiede: Verschiedene Perspektivierungen von Agency im biographischen Erzählen“ – Poster auf der Jubiläumstagung der Sektion Methoden der qualitativen Sozialforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) in Mainz
  Carsten G. Ullrich
  
• „‘Interviewfehler‘: Methodologische Reflexionen und empirische Erkenntnisse zu dispräferierten Frageformaten“ – Vortrag auf dem Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (ÖGS) in Wien
  Carsten G. Ullrich