Praxeologische Feldforschung: Reichweite, Tragweite, Importanz und Relevanz als Analysekategorien
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 simu...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | German |
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12 Mar 2021
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Geographica Helvetica
Year: 2021, Volume: 76, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-63 |
| ISSN: | 2194-8798 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/gh-76-51-2021 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-51-2021 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/76/51/2021/ 
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| Author Notes: | Klaus Geiselhart, Simon Runkel, Susann Schäfer, and Benedikt Schmid |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 27.01.2025 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2194-8798 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/gh-76-51-2021 |