People Type: Qualitative Methods

Qualitative methods include interviews, focus groups, participant observation, ethnography, historical analysis, and textual or content analysis. The methods are applied to all substantive areas of sociological inquiry.

Alatout, Samer

Home Page Department of Community & Environmental Sociology

Bell, Michael

Home Page Department of Community & Environmental Sociology Additional Online Resource Personal website

Besbris, Max

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am an economic, environmental, and urban sociologist interested in questions of stratification and decision making. Empirically, I study residential mobility and immobility, housing costs and housing market intermediaries, and how climate change is impacting housing markets more generally. In my work, I employ various methods and …

Daminger, Allison

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Alternate Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: My research focuses on gender inequality in family life. In much of my work, I ask a version of this question: as support for egalitarianism grows, why does gender continue to shape the benefits we enjoy and burdens we bear as members …

Emirbayer, Mustafa

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Education: Ph.D., Harvard University, 1989 Departmental Areas of Interest: Class Analysis and Historical Change, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Culture, General Social Theory, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnic Studies, Social Movements and Collective Behavior Classes: Soc 773 Intermediate Sociological Theory Soc 915 The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu Soc 915 Pragmatism and …

Jensen, Katherine

More Information Curriculum Vitae Personal Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: I am an Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As an ethnographer and qualitative sociologist, I research how race/ethnicity and immigration dynamics intertwine in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil and the Southern Cone. My work engages areas …

Oh, Eunsil

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am a sociologist of gender, work, and family interested in inequality, culture, and demographic change. My research asks how gender inequality persists and changes form as women’s lives transform, and I pursue that question through contemporary South Korea and East Asia. Empirically, I study maternal employment …

Pedriana, Nicholas

Biography Education: Ph.D., University of Iowa 2000 Departmental Areas of Interest: Law and Society; Political Sociology; Social Movements and Collective Action; Qualitative Methods Classes: Soc 134 The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Soc 210 Survey of Sociology Soc 211 The Sociological Enterprise Soc 475  Classical Sociological Theory Selected Publications: Pedriana, Nicholas. 2017.  “Max Weber’s Sociology …

Ward, Kelly Marie

Additional Online Resource Alternate Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: Kelly Marie Ward is an Assistant Professor in the Gender & Women’s Studies and Sociology departments at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She studies the organizational features of abortion and reproductive healthcare with an emphasis on low status workers. She has published in the Journal of …