《定性社会学》杂志致力于对社会生活的定性解释和分析。该杂志提供理论研究和分析研究，并出版基于研究方法的手稿，如采访、参与者观察、人种学、历史分析、内容分析和其他主要不依赖数字数据的方法。所有的论文都经过审查。
The journal Qualitative Sociology is dedicated to the qualitative interpretation and analysis of social life. The journal offers both theoretical and analytical research, and publishes manuscripts based on research methods such as interviewing, participant observation, ethnography, historical analysis, content analysis and others which do not rely primarily on numerical data. All papers are reviewed.