Praxeologische Feldforschung

• Verfasst von: Geiselhart, Klaus [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Runkel, Simon [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Schäfer, Susann [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Schmid, Benedikt [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Praxeologische Feldforschung
• Titelzusatz: Reichweite, Tragweite, Importanz und Relevanz als Analysekategorien
• Verf.angabe: Klaus Geiselhart, Simon Runkel, Susann Schäfer, and Benedikt Schmid
• E-Jahr: 2021
• Jahr: 12 Mar 2021
• Umfang: 13 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 27.01.2025
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Geographica Helvetica
• Ort Quelle: Göttingen : Copernicus Publications, 1946
• Jahr Quelle: 2021
• Band/Heft Quelle: 76(2021), 1, Seite 51-63
• ISSN Quelle: 2194-8798
• DOI: doi:10.5194/gh-76-51-2021
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: ger
• K10plus-PPN: 1915657792

Abstract

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.