Hi, this is not really about 'theoretical sampling', but rather about a
different aspect of Angie Marsh's recent post, partially quoted below. I
think we should be a bit careful about our terminology. The issues
discussed are difficult enough without loose usages. In the posting
'ethnomethodological' and 'conversation analysis' are used in ways that
don't seem to fit with their core meanings. Ethnomethodologists study, to
sum it up in a few words, social order constituted in/through local
practices, while conversation analysts focus on the social organization of
naturally occuring talk-in-interaction. Neither study 'value systems' or
'mind maps', and interviews are not among their favored methods. What Angie
does seems to be something else, then, a kind of interpretative study of
people's 'perspective' or 'world view', which is, in its own terms,
perfectly legitimate. Its methodology should be developped with its own
purposes in mind, not those of an entirely different tradition.
Best wishes, Paul
At 09:28 1-10-98 +1000, Angie Marsh wrote:
> I am basing my doctoral thesis on ethnomethodological methodological
>theories and right now, at the beginning, this is becoming a great problem
>for me. My subjects are young people who are deemed 'at risk' or
>'disadvantaged' in some way by various community institutions and are
>visible in the community by their non-conformist or deviant acts. My
>dilemma is to construct - with them - their value system - how they see the
>world and the future for them - to look at their 'resiliences' - even this
>has the conotation of a judgement. I propose to use grounded theory too
>using NUD*IST but as you say my interpretation of meanings and concepts is
>inevitable in building the theory. In the beginning I want to work on
>preliminary interviews with them using mind maps. This may eliminate some
>bias. May be a more reliable method will be conversation analysis, writing
>in all the voice including mine.
>Angie
>
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