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Odmiany teorii ugruntowanej jako metody wyjaśniania i zrozumienia polityki, interdyscyplinarnego przedmiotu badań naukowych

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Borowiec P.

Studia Politologiczne

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2017

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vol. 46

29-47

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Contemporary political science is multiparadigmatic and pluralistic. Therefore, political scientist use various methodological approaches, methodologies, research methods and techniques and refer to various scientific assumptions. This text follows that understanding of the political science. It presents two varieties of the grounded theory, which can be used for research by followers of the interpretivist paradigm but also by the followers of the positivist one. The purpose of this article is also to show the fields use of thought grounded theory, in other words that the paths leading to enriching the knowledge about politics.

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PRIVILEGED OBSERVERS TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVING TOWN

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Marzano G., Vicedomine R.

Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis

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2013

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issue 2

32-56

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At the end of 1960s, the French sociologist Raymond Ledrut claimed that a city is not a juxtaposition of parts, but urban areas show reciprocal relationships in the social space, and differences in urban community affect the character of cities. He speaks about the “image of a city” that is not so much a pictorial representation but the way in which people, inhabitants as well as visitors, talk about a place. The notion of the “character of a city” appeared even in the New Charter of Athens edited by the European Council of Town Planners’ Principles for Planning Cities (1998). This article illustrates and discusses the first results of a research carried out during the years 2011 and 2012, which purpose was to investigate if the inhabitants’ talking about their town can help to bring about the identification of relevant aspects that one regards as the character of a city, a term largely used not only in tourism and travel literature, but also in several scientific works. The research is essentially based on open ended semi-structured interviews with 25 elite persons, living in Udine (a city of about 100.000 people in the northeast of Italy) for at least 25 years, all belonging to the medium-high intellectual class. Interviews’ data has been integrated with information gathered from local literature, local newspapers, official statistics, and web analysis. A mixed research approach has been followed, integrating qualitative and quantitative data, these latter in part extracted from the interviews and in part from the Internet applying content analysis techniques. Our hypothesis was that interviews, if suitably constructed and carried out, could reduce the difficulties of large-scale investigations, allowing the gathering of a large amount of data in a relatively short time. The idea of deriving constructs and thematic topics from the interviews is shared by Denis Royer (2013). Our methodological hypothesis is presented and discussed, underlying that, in our research, the interviews have led us to the identification of some relevant aspects that contributed to represent the character of Udine. For example, a questionnaire would hardly have allowed to highlight the compartmentalization of Udine city’s life and unearthed the seemingly tolerant climate that reigns in this city.

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Między wizerunkiem a praktyką – diagnoza stanu wykorzystania programów komputerowych wspomagających analizę danych jakościowych w Polsce.

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Haratyk K., Kordasiewicz A.

Przegląd Socjologiczny

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2013

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vol. 62

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issue 1

167 - 187

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Since the beginning in the ’80 there were reservations toward CAQDAS among qualitative researchers (e.g. Seale 2000: 154–5). Currently in Poland their use is more common, but not universal and the reservations remained. Taking this into consideration the Polish literature of the subject engage in continuous CAQDAS legitimizing practices instead of offering critics of their capabilities. The legitimizing strategies consist of 1) exploiting the grounded theory (GT) approach to theoretically support the CAQDA, 2) creating the image of an analytical “magic wand”, and 3) each time providing introductory detailed descriptions of software procedures which impedes the papers to develop beyond this basic description. Our paper is based on the pioneer meta-methodological research on practice and opinions of Polish researchers on qualitative analysis and especially computer based analysis. Our results include the diagnosis of a dual gap within Polish sociology in the area of CAQDAS. First one is between image of CAQDAS in the methodological literature and in the opinions of the researchers themselves. Second gap is between the image among the users and actual practices of their use. There is also inconsistency between opinions commonly repeated in the methodological literature about close links between CAQDAS and GT and the lack of functions essential for the analysis inspired/required by the GT in CAQDAS.

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Odmiany teorii ugruntowanej jako metody wyjaśniania i zrozumienia polityki, interdyscyplinarnego przedmiotu badań naukowych

PRIVILEGED OBSERVERS TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVING TOWN

Między wizerunkiem a praktyką – diagnoza stanu wykorzystania programów komputerowych wspomagających analizę danych jakościowych w Polsce.