Qualitative Research in a Changing Epistemic Context: The Case of a Small Social Science Community

B Hönig

Since the very beginnings of the discipline, sociology has mostly been dealing with deep societalchanges, transitions and transformations in those societies, for which sociology was also held to be itsscience. Current political and economic integration, legal and cultural processes within the EuropeanUnion provide sociology with enough impulses to reconsider its knowledge claims. However, it is notquite clear whether a common vision of sociology already is a matter of fact or a kind of future prospectfor efforts in the neighbouring countries Slovenia and Austria, geographically located in the heart of theEuropean Union.

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