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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Hauptverfasser: Geiselhart, Klaus (VerfasserIn) , Runkel, Simon (VerfasserIn) , Schäfer, Susann (VerfasserIn) , Schmid, Benedikt (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Deutsch
Veröffentlicht: 12 Mar 2021
In: Geographica Helvetica
Year: 2021, Jahrgang: 76, Heft: 1, Pages: 51-63
ISSN:2194-8798
DOI:10.5194/gh-76-51-2021
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Verfasserangaben:Klaus Geiselhart, Simon Runkel, Susann Schäfer, and Benedikt Schmid
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Zusammenfassung: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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ISSN:2194-8798
DOI:10.5194/gh-76-51-2021