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Fragmented Discourses: The Indian Digital Public Sphere in a Post-truth Era
The paper explores the fragmented discourses in the Indian digital public sphere in a post-truth world. The normative concept of the public sphere by...
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Types of Data, Data Collection, and Storage Methods
The chapter discusses the importance of qualitative data, the various types of qualitative data, and data collection and storage methods. Qualitative...
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Recipients’ Views on Empathy in Everyday Work Communication—Insights from an Exploratory Interview Study
This study sets out to reveal recipients’ perceptions of empathy in interpersonal communication processes in organisations. Thereby, the goal is to...
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The Operationalization of the Study: Global Carriers and Neoliberal Thinking
In each country study qualitative, quantitative research steps are combined in order to empirically test the basic assumptions that form the core of...
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Selecting Switzerland
The study designStudy design of this book is based on four case studies located in SwitzerlandSwitzerland: the four cities—Zurich, Basel, Köniz, and...
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Memento Mori in Medicine and the Universality of Forces from Below: On the Reality of Markets
The first purpose of this chapter is to characterize the market, one of the central concepts in economic theory, more generally as the universality...
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Intimate Partner Violence Directed at Men: Experiences of Violence, Help-seeking, and Potential Gender Role Conflict Among Portuguese Men
Recent research has shed light on how men in same-sex and different-sex relationships experience Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), and how it may...
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Collective Mindsets: How to Analyze Neoliberal Thinking
In analyzing societies, cultures or economies, collective mindsets play an important role. They tell us about the spiritual construction and the...
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Maschinen lernen nicht! – „Machine learning“-Algorithmen entzaubert
Ein Roboter, der selbstständig lernt: Für die einen faszinierend und erstrebenswert, für andere ein Horrorszenario. Dabei ist „machine learning“ nur...
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Understanding permaculturist motivations among residents of the “PermaKulturRaum” in Goettingen, Germany: a qualitative analysis
By using an inductive qualitative approach, investigating the micro scale, that is, the individual level, we conducted a case study on the...
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The (in-)visibility of difference: gay and lesbian identities and the German police
While modern police organizations have included diversity in their portfolio of guiding orientations, there has been little research on the sexual...
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Shedding light on the biographical research field: profiles of publication
Much has been written about the field of biographical research. Comprehensive states of the art and field map**s have enabled researchers,...
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Methodological Approach
The exploration of concrete CWS locations, the associated spaces and atmospheres, as well as the reconstruction of the users’ perspectives on...
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A Theory of Governance as Problematization and De-problematization
This chapter proposes the model f governance as a multidimensional process of the interdependence of problematization and de-problematization. But it...
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Finalization actions of the finalist teams in the Soccer World Cup 2018: a study with Polar Coordinates
Increasing knowledge about what actions are most effective in sport is essential to improve performance in the game. This study aims to analyse the...
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Philosophy of Science—Philosophical Foundations and Positions
This chapter introduces the philosophical foundations of the theory of science, locates the theory of science in the context and in distinction to...
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Qualitative Data and Approaches to Population–Environment Inquiry
This chapter highlights the contribution of qualitative methods for understanding the population–environment nexus. A brief overview is offered of a...
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The potential of working hypotheses for deductive exploratory research
While hypotheses frame explanatory studies and provide guidance for measurement and statistical tests, deductive, exploratory research does not have...
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Israel’s spatial and a-spatial strategy of dispossessing the Jordan Valley’s Palestinian Inhabitants
The Jordan Valley’s territorial extent is defined for this study as an elongated stretch of border area, located west of Jordan’s boundary with the...
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Women Fighting Gender Stereotypes in a Gender Egalitarian Culture
Despite the increased importance of technology, at current rates it will still take hundreds of years to achieve gender equality in technology across...