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Praxeologische Feldforschung – Reichweite, Tragweite, Importanz und Relevanz als Analysekategorien.
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Geographica Helvetica . 2021, Vol. 76 Issue 1, p51-63. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Kurzfassung: This paper develops three analytical categories – range, supporting capacity, exigency/notability – to capture how supra-individual phenomena affect the people studied by empirical research. Researchers face a tension between constructivist and realist perspectives as the examined phenomena are simultaneously social constructs, in the way people perceive and understand them, and social facts in their consequences. Taking a critical perspective on the notion of large social phenomena – popularized by Theodore Schatzki – the paper develops an explorative terminology that aims to facilitate practice-oriented field research. Examples of empirical research on transition and degrowth initiatives illustrate how research subjects estimate the range of a phenomenon by trying to grasp whether they are in or out of its reach; the supportive capacity of a phenomenon by exploring how far it carries certain processes; and they experience the exigency of a phenomenon and ascribe a certain notability to it. Taken together, this terminology grasps the way phenomena are matters of concern, rather than matters of fact, for the research subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- German
- ISSN :
- 00167312
- Volume :
- 76
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Geographica Helvetica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 149730843
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-51-2021