Praxeologische Feldforschung - Reichweite, Tragweite, Importanz und Relevanz als Analysekategorien
Geiselhart K, Runkel S, Schäfer S, Schmid B (2021)
Publication Language: German
Publication Type: Journal article, Original article
Publication year: 2021
Journal
Book Volume: 76
Pages Range: 51-63
Journal Issue: 76
Abstract
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.
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APA:
Geiselhart, K., Runkel, S., Schäfer, S., & Schmid, B. (2021). Praxeologische Feldforschung - Reichweite, Tragweite, Importanz und Relevanz als Analysekategorien. Geographica Helvetica, 76(76), 51-63. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-51-2021
MLA:
Geiselhart, Klaus, et al. "Praxeologische Feldforschung - Reichweite, Tragweite, Importanz und Relevanz als Analysekategorien." Geographica Helvetica 76.76 (2021): 51-63.
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