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Applying qualitative comparative analysis in large-N studies: a sco** review of good practices before, during, and after the analytic moment
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) was originally developed to address configural research questions with a small to medium number of cases...
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Material Shape: Practices, Spaces and Atmospheres
What characterizes coworking in the everyday life of CWSs? This question guides the following explanations. First, in Sect. 8.1, two basic practices...
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Explanatory Models of (Mental) Health Among Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Belgium: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions and Practices
Culturally differing approaches to the distinction between physical and mental health contribute to cultural differences in explanatory models of...
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Negotiating Masculinity Through Technology and Self-Tracking Practices
This chapter presents the first ideal type of diabetic masculinity, defined as the “Tracker,” and focuses on the role technology and self-tracking...
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In the absence of meaning: care practices and environmental factors behind the multiple selves of the digital psychiatry participant
This paper compares formal accounts that laboratory members use to describe a digital psychiatry intervention with lab practices as they were...
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‘Informal’ Financial Practices in the South Bronx: Family, Compadres, and Acquaintances
This paper explores the role of ‘informal’ financial practices in sha** the resilience of immigrant urban communities, many of which are centered...
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Knowledge and Practices of Menstrual Hygiene of the Adolescent Girls of Slums in Siliguri City, India: A Cross-Sectional Study
BackgroundGirls in their adolescence confront various obstacles regarding menstruation and its effective management. Because of the lack of space and...
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Improficiency and the Professionalization of Undisciplined Practices
This chapter’s author interrogates the spaces and knowledges of interdisciplinarity by exploring the relationship between alternative understandings...
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Scuba Diving Practices in Greece A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature
This book provides a historical-sociological analysis of recreational scuba diving practices. Starting from a national case study, Greece, the book...
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'Qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods and approaches across subject fields: implications for research values, assumptions, and practices
There is considerable literature showing the complexity, connectivity and blurring of 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods in research. Yet these...
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Psychosocial Determinants of Premarital Sexual Practices among University Students in Sudan
Sudan is one of the Islamic countries where extramarital sex is religiously forbidden and socially unacceptable. However, increasing numbers of...
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Indigenous knowledge and traditional agroforestry practices and their implications for food security: the case of Wollega Zones, Western Ethiopia
This study focuses on traditional agroforestry and indigenous knowledge in contributing to food security in the western part of Ethiopia, mainly the...
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Exploring the significance of relationality, care and governmentality in families, for understanding women’s classed alcohol drinking practices
In this paper we explore the importance of relationality and care for understanding women’s alcohol use, using a theoretical framework comprising...
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Special issue Intro: housing estates in the era of marketization – governance practices and urban planning
This paper introduces a Special Issue of the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment entitled “Housing estates in the era of marketization –...
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Money in one click: Inequalities in digital financial practices and digital Skills among emerging adults in Switzerland
Although Internet is becoming a medium for all economic activities, inequalities in digital financial practices among youth have received little...
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Living together but gates apart: aspirations and place caring practices among residents living outside a gated community in Peri-urban Accra.
Global capital investment in the housing sector has transformed major African cities such as Accra into segregated clusters of high-rise buildings...
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Thinking Households—How Resident Conceptualisations of Waste, Reclaimers and Separation at Source Shape Recycling Practices
Municipalities across the globe are implementing separation at source programmes to reduce waste sent to landfills. Yet typically, significant...
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Everyday Practices of Adaptation in the Modern Arctic
Much of the current research on climate change adaptation in the Arctic focuses on the impacts and consequences of climate change for indigenous and...
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Impact of Social Change on Nigeria’s Cultural and Medical Practices
Social change is constant worldwide. Social change is currently a global phenomenon that impacts on multitude of cultures. In this chapter, we will...
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Embrace Process: Classroom Practices for Nonviolent Formation
When students have embedded resistance, what classroom practices incite deep formation without repeating destructive or excluding structures and...