Working with Sensitizing Concepts: Analytical Field Research

摘要: Background and history. -- The critics. Sencitizing concepts as anomalies in Blumer's social scientific procedure. Sensitizing lacking structural dimensions. characterized by vagueness. nominal definitions. Senzitizing restricting the range for collecting data. going stale. Taking distance from Folk or terms. concepts. supra-concepts Constructing sensitizing Step 1: Deriving participants' perspective. 2: "Exploring" using focus groups. 3: "Inspecting" "dimensionalizing". 4: Relating to other contexts. 5: Organizing same family of Cross-cultural settings. Icelandic field setting Theoretical analytical implications. Qualitative quantitative approaches. Sociological theory. Cognate disciplines.