Praxeologische Feldforschung – Reichweite, Tragweite, Importanz und Relevanz als Analysekategorien

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18970206
AutoresKlaus Geiselhart (0000-0002-4753-817X), Simon Runkel (0000-0002-3774-2433, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, autor de correspondencia), Susann Schäfer (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Benedikt Schmid (0000-0002-7296-6125, University of Freiburg)
Año2021
Volumen76
Número1
Páginas51-63
Fecha de publicación2021-03-12
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeographica Helvetica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-7312 • E-ISSN: 2194-8798
EditorialCopernicus GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.5194/gh-76-51-2021
OpenAlexW3138696380
IdiomaDE
Referencias citadas26

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

Empirical research · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical) · Phenomenon · Social phenomenon · Social science · Sociology · Terminology · Computer Science · Economic and Social Issues · Philosophy · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Sociology and Education Studies