Udo Kelle

Udo Kelle (born June 1, 1960 in Hanover ) is a German sociologist . He is professor for methods of empirical social research and statistics at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg.

Life

Udo Kelle grew up in Hanover and graduated from the Tellkampf School there in 1978 . He studied medicine , sociology and psychology at the Universities of Bochum, Bielefeld, Hanover and Bremen. In 1988 he obtained a diploma in psychology at the University of Bremen and received his doctorate there in 1992 with a thesis on the methodology of qualitative research for Dr. phil. From 1989 to 1997 he was a research assistant or scientific assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 186 of the University of Bremen “Status passages and risk situations in the life course”, from 1997 to 2005 he taught as a lecturer at the University of Vechta . In 2005 he was with a study on the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods of empirical social research at the University of Bremen habilitation and in the same year as professor of Methods of Social Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of Marburg appointed. In 2010 he accepted a call to the Helmut Schmidt University, University of the Federal Armed Forces, in Hamburg, where he has been teaching methods of empirical social research since the autumn trimester.

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In his work, Udo Kelle is primarily concerned with the methodology and methods of empirical social research. He is particularly interested in the theoretical and scientific-philosophical foundations of empirical methods and the relationship between qualitative and quantitative processes. Other works deal with computer-aided techniques of qualitative social research , with methods of type formation and with fundamental problems of social science theory of action .

selected Writings

• (together with Susann Kluge) From individual cases to types. Case comparison and case contrasting in qualitative social research. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-14704-8
• The integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in empirical social research: theoretical foundations and methodological concepts. Verl. Für Sozialwiss., Wiesbaden 2007, 2nd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15312-4
• Method innovation in life course research: integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in life course and biography research. (Status passages in the course of life, vol. 4), 2001, ISBN 978-3-7799-1085-5
• Computer-aided Qualitative Data Analysis. Theories, Methods and Practice. 1995, ISBN 978-0-8039-7761-7

Web links

• Trowel on uni-marburg.de ( Memento from June 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Literature by and about Udo Kelle in the catalog of the German National Library