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From: dzwi2898-AT-postoffice.uri.edu
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 22:36:18 -0800
Subject: comprendre



Dear List Members,

As a doctoral student embarking on my fieldwork, I find Bourdieu's approach to
social science research (especially as laid out in Reflexive Sociology and
Misere du Monde) very compelling and a great guidance for my own work.
However,
I have a problem with his elaborations of methodology (or the lack thereof,  I
think). Sure, he devoted some 20 pages in 'Misere du Monde' to an explication
of his "presupposes epistemologiques" as an interviewer and social
scinetist in
general and I find this part very helpful in guiding my interviewing process
and the interpretation of the transcrips.  But what I was wondering is, how
EXACTLY does he move from the transcripts to the interpretation? In other
words, what is Bourdieu's technique of coding the text?  Is this a concern of
his at all? It seems that the closest he gets to telling us more about that
aspect is in his footnotes to "Comprendre." Also, he seems to reject the
ethnomethodologist tradition and, I suppose, the way they derive meaning from
text (?). As for Grounded Theory, for example, there is a minute prescription
involved to analyze (code and organize) the text. Has Bourdieu said anything
about that aspect of the research process? Any help is appreciated.

thanks

Detlev
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