“…-an "interpretative" epistemological stance (e.g., Knoblauch et al, 2018) which is associated e.g., with phenomenology or social constructivism (Knoblauch and Pfadenhauer, 2018) or some branches of pragmatism (Johnson et al, 2017); -a research process that is circular or spiral (Strübing, 2014); -single case studies (Baur and Lamnek, 2017a) or small theoretically and purposely drawn samples meaning that relatively few cases are analyzed (Behnke et al, 2010, pp. 194-210); -for these cases, a lot of data are collected, e.g., by qualitative interviews (Helfferich, 2019), ethnography (Knoblauch and Vollmer, 2019) or so-called "natural" data, i.e., qualitative process-produced data such as visual data (Rose, 2016) or digital data such as web videos (Traue and Schünzel, 2019), websites (Schünzel and Traue, 2019) or blogs (Schmidt, 2019). In all these cases, this means that a lot of information per case is analyzed; -both the data and the data collection process are open-ended and less structured than in quantitative research; -data are typically prepared and organized either by hand or by using qualitative data analysis software (such as NVivo, MAXqda or Atlas/ti); -data analysis procedures themselves are suitable for the more unstructured nature of the data.…”