A Foundering Research Project. Revisiting Three Posts
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Research Confusion | No Comments »This sequence of three posts tells how the failure to communicate among researchers and their failure to see clearly and quickly their local reality had disastrous consequences for their research project. ^^^^^ The original posts can be found at (1) Sociological ...
Research Confusion. Interorganized Medical Units. Part III
Monday, September 3rd, 2007 Posted in Analysis, Research Confusion | No Comments »Act III. Discovery of the Basic Missing Fact. ^^^^^ Cliffhanger: Like a hound who has been offered the wrong scent, I was making progress on a meaningless track. The denouement, the last cliff, was fast approaching. ^^^^^ In the novel "The Crying of Lot ...
Research Project in Social Organization Part II.
Friday, August 31st, 2007 Posted in Concepts, Research Confusion | No Comments »Act II. Looking Around, Sensing the Lay of the Land. The Second World War butted up against the very slowly waning Great Depression. The military draft transported youths who had grown up in lean material environments into a world of ...
Sociological Research Project—Organization of Medical Services in a Neighborhood. Part I
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 Posted in Concepts, Research Confusion | No Comments »Act I. Groping, I come to the edge of a research field. (This narrative is presented in three parts.)But First a Story... Tolliver found Schlep near the stalls and they walked from there toward the paddock through the disciplined ritual of ...