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Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research
Iddo Tavory,Stefan Timmermans +1 more
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Tavory and Timmermans as discussed by the authors provide a navigational map for constructing empirically based generalizations in qualitative research and outline an accessible way to think about observations, methods, and theories that nurtures theory-formation without locking it into predefined conceptual boxes.Abstract:
In Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for constructing empirically based generalizations in qualitative research. They outline an accessible way to think about observations, methods, and theories that nurtures theory-formation without locking it into predefined conceptual boxes. The authors view research as continually moving back and forth between a set of observations and theoretical generalizations. To craft theory is to then pitch one's observations in relation to other potential cases, both within and without one's field. The book provides novel ways to approach the challenges that plague qualitative researchers across the social sciences-how to think about the relation between methods and theories, how to conceptualize causality, how to construct axes of variation, and how to leverage the researcher's community of inquiry. Abductive Analysis is a landmark work that shows how a pragmatist approach provides a more productive and fruitful way to conduct qualitative research.read more
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A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems
Miranda P.M. Meuwissen,Peter H. Feindt,Peter H. Feindt,Alisa Spiegel,Catrien J.A.M. Termeer,Erik Mathijs,Yann de Mey,Robert Finger,Alfons Balmann,Erwin Wauters,Julie Urquhart,Mauro Vigani,Katarzyna Zawalińska,Hugo Herrera,Phillipa Nicholas-Davies,Helena Hansson,W.H. Paas,Thomas Slijper,Isabeau Coopmans,Willemijn Vroege,Anna Ciechomska,Francesco Accatino,Birgit Kopainsky,P. Marijn Poortvliet,Jeroen J. L. Candel,Damian Maye,Simone Severini,Saverio Senni,Bárbara Soriano,Carl Johan Lagerkvist,Mariya Peneva,Camelia Gavrilescu,Pytrik Reidsma +32 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define resilience of a farming system as its ability to ensure the provision of the system functions in the face of increasingly complex and accumulating economic, social, environmental and institutional shocks and stresses, through capacities of robustness, adaptability and transformability.
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Teaching Theory Construction With Initial Grounded Theory Tools A Reflection on Lessons and Learning
TL;DR: Teaching initial grounded theory tools while interviewing, coding, and writing memos for the purpose of scaling up the analytic level of students’ research and advancing theory construction is focused on.
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The neurotic academic: Anxiety, casualisation and governance in the neoliberalising university
TL;DR: The subjective experience of anxiety in the UK's "neoliberalising" higher education (HE) sector is explored in this article, where the authors argue that anxiety is a symptom of wider processes at work in the neoliberalising sector and a "tactic" of what Isin refers to as "neuroliberal" governance.
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A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems
Miranda P.M. Meuwissen,Peter H. Feindt,Peter H. Feindt,Alisa Spiegel,Catrien J.A.M. Termeer,Erik Mathijs,Yann de Mey,Robert Finger,Alfons Balmann,Erwin Wauters,Julie Urquhart,Mauro Vigani,Katarzyna Zawalińska,Hugo Herrera,Phillipa Nicholas-Davies,Helena Hansson,W.H. Paas,Thomas Slijper,Isabeau Coopmans,Willemijn Vroege,Anna Ciechomska,Francesco Accatino,Birgit Kopainsky,P. Marijn Poortvliet,Jeroen J. L. Candel,Damian Maye,Simone Severini,Saverio Senni,Bárbara Soriano,Carl Johan Lagerkvist,Mariya Peneva,Camelia Gavrilescu,Pytrik Reidsma +32 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define resilience of a farming system as its ability to ensure the provision of the system functions in the face of increasingly complex and accumulating economic, social, environmental and institutional shocks and stresses, through capacities of robustness, adaptability and transformability.
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Technologies of Crime Prediction: The Reception of Algorithms in Policing and Criminal Courts
Sarah Brayne,Angèle Christin +1 more
TL;DR: Brayne et al. as discussed by the authors conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a large urban police department and a midsized criminal court to assess the impact of predictive technologies at different stages of the criminal justice process.