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> > Benjamín González Rodríguez wrote: > > > > > A subtle, neo-minimalist communication, but not un-nuanced -- perhaps > the thinnest of the Geertzian thick descriptions.... > > Birrell Walsh > MicroTimes Sarah Delaney wrote: > > Birrell (and Benjamin) > > I think you'll actually find it's more along the lines of a post-modern take > on Levi-Strauss' approach to typologies, in that you can explain them away > until nothing remains. > *The Raw, the Cooked & the Evaporated-Fully-Away.* Unpublished by Levi Strauss For those who think we are being merely silly, how would you establish that what we are doing is NOT qualitative research? This is one of QR's besetting problems: the lack of a rejection criterion other than peer-acceptance or non-acceptance. The acceptance/non-acceptance criterion is like the third grade class who couldn't decide if a kitten was a boy or a girl -- so they decided to vote on it. Birrell Walsh MicroTimes Kevin Crowston Syracuse University Phone: +1 (315) 443-1676 School of Information Studies Fax: +1 (315) 443-5806 4-206 Centre for Science and Technology EMail: [log in to unmask] Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 USA Web: http://crowston.syr.edu/ until June 1: c/o Department of MSIS Phone: +64 (9) 373-7599 x6640 University of Auckland Fax: +64 (9) 373-7430 Private Bag 92019 Cell: +64 (21) 126-0309 Auckland, New Zealand %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%