The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences

Jarvie, I. C.; Zamora-Bonilla, Jesús

doi:10.4135/9781473913868

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“…Although it is widely acknowledged that the researcher's pre-understanding inevitably shapes knowledge production (Jarvie & Zamora-Bonilla, 2011;Mir, Willmott, & Greenwood, 2016), it has largely been seen as a source of biases (e.g. gender stereotyping, race discrimination, one-sidedness) and other problematic prejudices that interfere negatively with ambitions to produce valid and reliable knowledge through rigorous data management (Astley, 1985;Miles & Huberman, 1994;Sandberg, 2005;Schmidt & Hunter, 2014).…”

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Pre-understanding: An interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research

Alvesson

Sandberg

2021

Organization Studies

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Pre-understanding – our presuppositions of reality – underlies all research. Many researchers probably also draw productively on their pre-understanding in their studies. However, very few rationales and methodological resources exist for how researchers can enrich their research by mobilising their pre-understanding more actively and systematically. We elaborate and propose a framework for how researchers more actively, systematically and visibly can bring forward their pre-understanding and use it as a positive input in research, alongside formal data and theory. In particular, we show how researchers, in dialogue with data and theory, can mobilize their pre-understanding as an interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander throughout the research process, including stimulating imagination and idea generation, broadening the empirical base, and evaluating what empirical material and theoretical ideas are interesting and relevant to pursue.

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Section: Putting Pre-understanding In Its Methodological Contextmentioning

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Pre-understanding: An interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research

Alvesson

Sandberg

2021

Organization Studies

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“…<FIGURE 1, 20cm greyscale > Figure 1 also illustrates the range of theoretical approaches that characterise the social sciences as they stand, and the very real gulf between mainstream social science and 'social archaeology' (Preucel & Meskell 2004;Thomas 2015). This list of topics organises the essays in The Sage handbook of the philosophy of the social sciences (Jarvie & Zamora-Bomilla 2011). While the list does include the kinds of approaches listed by Hodder and Thomas, the majority of social science approaches find no place in their schemes of archaeological theory.…”

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Social Science and Archaeological Inquiry

Smith¹

2017

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“…Although the insight that the characteristics and generation of research phenomena are rarely fixed and definite, but often constructed, is far from new, it is not well developed within the research community. Instead, researchers have paid considerably more attention to the epistemological question of how to develop valid and reliable knowledge about research phenomena (e.g., Jarvie and Zamora‐Bonilla, 2011; Jorgensen and Phillips, 2002), rather than to the more ontological question of how they arrive at research phenomena. One could argue that much research (including phenomenon‐driven research) simply misses a vital step, namely the process of generating and establishing a phenomenon to investigate and theorize, and prematurely moves on without careful consideration of what is to be explored.…”

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The Art of Phenomena Construction: A Framework for Coming Up with Research Phenomena beyond ‘the Usual Suspects’

Alvesson

Sandberg

2023

J Management Studies

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Despite the centrality of research phenomena, the process of their definition is often neglected and reduced to a simple choosing of pre‐established subjects of interest. However, good research not only includes empirical work aimed at more or less ‘given as fact’ phenomena. It also involves phenomena construction: that is, the process of generating and establishing phenomena to investigate and theorize. We contend that phenomena construction is not separate from, but integral to, both the empirical and theorizing phases in research. As few phenomena are truly ‘given’ or straightforward to observe, good research calls for careful and creative construction of the phenomenon under investigation. We propose and elaborate a framework that enables researchers to generate and establish research phenomena beyond those currently available in their specific area of interest and, based on this, to produce more imaginative and impactful research.

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The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences

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Pre-understanding: An interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research

Pre-understanding: An interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research

Social Science and Archaeological Inquiry

The Art of Phenomena Construction: A Framework for Coming Up with Research Phenomena beyond ‘the Usual Suspects’

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