Die trans-sequentielle Analyse – und ihre formativen Objekte

Scheffer, Thomas

doi:10.1007/978-3-531-18953-6_4

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“…This article reconstructs a process of negotiating attachments in a trans-sequential analysis (TSA) (Scheffer, 2013(Scheffer, , 2018a of an organic wholesaler's innovation project, 'step by step plastic free'. Originating in ethnomethodology, TSA is based on ethnographic observations of dynamic practical contexts such as procedures, debates or work processes.…”

Section: Methodological Approach: a Trans-sequential Analysis Of The Innovation Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By portraying objects in their practical and symbolical connections and formations, TSA allows the observation of distributed and double-sided processes of object formation. It studies the mediating characteristics of objects that are simultaneously (a) formable, (b) to be formed and (c) have forming effects on the course of practices and procedures (Scheffer, 2013). Applying TSA, one starts by examining situations and their actors.…”

Section: Methodological Approach: a Trans-sequential Analysis Of The Innovation Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a trans-sequential analysis (TSA) of the process, I show how attachments to plastic wrap hinder an easy replacement. TSA provides a methodological approach for studying dynamic object relations in everyday work practices (Scheffer, 2013(Scheffer, , 2018a. Reconstructing the concrete steps and turns in the innovation process, plastic reduction appears as a complex and precarious undertaking.…”

Section: Introduction: Withdrawing From Unsustainable Object Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Negotiating attachments to plastic

Sattlegger

2021

Soc Stud Sci

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Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the office and warehouse of an organic wholesaler in Germany, this article presents a trans-sequential analysis of an innovation that aimed to reduce the use of plastic wrap. During the analytical reconstruction of the innovation process, the substitution of plastic wrap turned out to be a precarious process of negotiating attachments to plastic. Against this background, innovation is not simply about the implementation and substitution of technology by human actors, but about negotiating attachments that humans have towards objects within socio-technical assemblages. Drawing on actor-network theory and the sociology of attachment, the article highlights the dynamic interplay between persistence and problematization of plastic wrap, which characterizes the innovation process. This interplay is seen along several steps during the innovation process: from (1) the problematization of plastic dependency to (2) the mobilization of alternatives, to (3) resistance against measures to be implemented and (4) the enforcement of reusable strings as technological substitution and (5) to conclusive retrospection on the innovation process. The trans-sequential analysis shows that ‘getting rid of something’ might be an imperfect approach to dealing with unsustainable object relations. Instead, withdrawing is a double-sided process of detaching and attaching, removing constraints and building new ones.

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Section: Methodological Approach: a Trans-sequential Analysis Of The Innovation Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodological Approach: a Trans-sequential Analysis Of The Innovation Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introduction: Withdrawing From Unsustainable Object Relationsmentioning

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Negotiating attachments to plastic

Sattlegger

2021

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“…EC refers to configurations of situations, including their material and cognitive forms, actors, and conventions, as dispositives [64] We conceptualize governance of selection to baccalaureate school as a chain of synchronous and diachronic situations of coordination of action among various actors. Borrowing from the ideas of global value chains [65], statistical chains [66], and trans-sequential analysis [67], such transition chains consist of series of situations in which the actors involved shape, format, and transform the "production of selection." The term statistical chain has been used to describe a series of stations involving various forms of practice, logics of action and conventions, and groups of actors that produce statistics [51].…”

Section: Doing Governance With Plural Logics Of Action: Economics Of Conventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transition to Long-Term Baccalaureate School in Switzerland: Governance, Tensions, and Justifications

2022

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In Switzerland, the baccalaureate school is an important pathway to university education, and the aspirations of families and students to enter baccalaureate school have grown. However, vocational education and training (VET) remains the predominant educational pathway and has a strong lobby. We investigate how in this context, the transition from primary education to baccalaureate school is governed and justified at the cantonal level. We study how two Swiss cantons try to meet the official or unofficial maximum baccalaureate quotas desired by educational policymakers through different selection procedures and admission criteria. Drawing on the Economics of Conventions, we conceptualize selection procedures as cantonal transition chains and show that the strategies, procedures, and instruments applied in governance are rooted in diverse principles of action. This causes tensions within cantons. Our analysis shows that agency and regulating effects in the governance of transitions must be understood as distributed among actors, technologies, and objects.

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“…Dies bedeutet für die Entwicklung der beiden Instrumente -Selbstreflexionsbogen und Forschungsheuristik -exemplarisch nicht nur analytische Perspektivierungen von Vermittlungsprozessen vorzulegen und zu reflektieren, die auf der Systematik des Analysemodells aufbauen, sondern darüber hinaus gerade auch für die Dynamiken der Bedingungsgefüge zu sensibilisieren. Die Entwicklung von (Selbst-)Reflexionsangeboten sowie einer Forschungsheuristik bedarf einer transsequentiellen und transsituativen Perspektivierung (vgl Scheffer, 2013). von Vermittlungspraktiken, die gerade nicht auf vermeintlich bildungsrelevante Parameter verengt werden kann, sondern Bildungspotenziale von Tanzvermittlung analytisch differenziert, figurativ und prozesshaft zu untersuchen erlaubt.…”

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