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 __________________________________________ "Freiheit waere, nicht zwischen schwarz und wei=DF zu waehlen, sondern aus solcher vorgeschriebenen Wahl herauszutreten." ______________________(Theodor Adorno)__________________
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