[Xmca-l] Re: The Science of Qualitative Research 2ed

[Huw Lloyd]

James,

Apropos fluidity and your prior 3 points of DM, you might like this (Ernst
von Glaserfield on Piaget and Cybernetics):

http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/archive/fulltexts/1503.html

For "thrown-ness" you might like this:

"Often a change in active orientation is triggered by a problem in action.
For instance, an action that does not bring about the expected result,
which may result in a new yet familiar process of questioning. The
questioning embodies a certain ‘thrown-ness’ in which a new or altered
active-orientation may be the resulting outcome. The manifestation of new
ideas realise motivated actions on the basis of the newly formed active
orientation in which they arise. Similarly, imaginatively seeing the
transformative steps for accomplishing a task may yield the appropriate
orientation to bring it about."

This is from one of my draft's online (
https://www.academia.edu/24660557/Active_Orientation). I hope to write a
more technical version in the forthcoming year when I have hopefully
completed a rather mammoth task.

Also, your response re the meaning post seemed to be contrary to what I was
posting -- nothing wrong with meaning per se, but rather the fusion of two
similar terms which from a genetic perspective (of reflection) equate to
the same thing...

Best,
Huw

On 18 December 2017 at 19:42, James Ma <jamesma320@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Martin, I'm inclined to think that hermeneutics would be a best
> approach to the being (dasein) of being human since there's no exactness
> but fluidity and uncertainty of "thrownness".
> James
>
> On 18 December 2017 at 01:12, Martin John Packer <mpacker@uniandes.edu.co>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello James. Well, it isn’t. But it ought to be!  :)
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > > On Dec 17, 2017, at 4:15 PM, James Ma <jamesma320@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Martin, I agree with you entirely - social science is the science
> > of
> > > interpretation centring around the hermeneutic phenomenology of being
> > human
> > > - which chimes with post-positivism. James
> > >
> > > On 16 December 2017 at 22:19, Martin John Packer <
> > mpacker@uniandes.edu.co>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Cambridge University Press, in their infinite wisdom, have just
> > published
> > >> an expanded second edition of my book The Science of Qualitative
> > Research.
> > >> It will be a perfect holiday gift for a loved one!  :)
> > >>
> > >> The book continues to make the case that a common view of qualitative
> > >> research — that it amounts to a set of techniques for describing
> > people’s
> > >> subjective experience — is mistaken. I propose that in fact
> qualitative
> > >> research can take us beyond the taken for granted ontological dualisms
> > of
> > >> subjectivity/objectivity, mind/world, and appearance/reality. Human
> > beings
> > >> have created the worlds, the cultures, in which we live, and we are
> > >> products of these worlds. Qualitative research can be the study of the
> > >> ‘ontological complicity’ that people have with the social reality in
> > which
> > >> they live, and the ‘constitution’ in which specific ways of being
> human
> > are
> > >> formed. The constituents of qualitative research — and in the book I
> > focus
> > >> on three: interviews, analysis of interaction, and ethnographic field
> > work
> > >> — can be combined and aligned to focus on ontology, in a scientific
> > study
> > >> of the constitution of human beings. This science is centrally a
> matter
> > of
> > >> interpretation, of hermeneutics, not of coding.
> > >>
> > >> The new material includes a discussion of the centrality of
> constitution
> > >> (not only causation) in every scientific discipline -- think of Watson
> > and
> > >> Crick discovering how DNA is constituted -- in Chapter 1. Discussion
> of
> > >> Bruno Latour’s work has been included in several chapters: there are
> > >> treatments of his book Laboratory Life, of actor-network theory, and
> of
> > his
> > >> Inquiry into Modes of Existence.
> > >>
> > >> In addition, a new final chapter presents as an example and case study
> > the
> > >> research conducted by Löic Wacquant with boxers in south Chicago.
> > Wacquant
> > >> joined the gym, learned to box, and came to be on familiar terms with
> > the
> > >> men who were becoming constituted as boxers. His ethnographic
> fieldwork
> > >> focused on the bodily practices of the boxing life, while his
> interviews
> > >> illustrated how the boxer’s ontological complicity with this life
> > builds a
> > >> way of understanding the gym, and the body. Wacquant helps us to see
> the
> > >> ideals and morality that are inherent in a boxer’s way of human being,
> > of
> > >> being human. His research illustrates the potential of qualitative
> > research
> > >> to enable us to recognize the diverse ways in which people make
> > themselves
> > >> into particular kinds of person, so we can better understand the
> ethical
> > >> freedom that is key to being human. This, in my view, is what makes
> this
> > >> kind of scientific investigation both exciting and important.
> > >>
> > >> CUP:
> > >> <http://www.cambridge.org/co/academic/subjects/social-
> > >> science-research-methods/qualitative-methods/science-
> > >> qualitative-research-2nd-edition?format=HB&isbn=9781108404501>
> > >>
> > >> Amazon:
> > >> <https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=
> > >> qs&keywords=9781108417129>
> > >>
> > >> Facebook author’s page:
> > >> <https://www.facebook.com/pg/The-Science-of-Qualitative-
> > >> Research-2e-1851273521851365/posts/?ref=page_internal>
> > >>
> > >> Martin
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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