On Social Emergence: A Non-Dichotomous Approach to Qualitative Tool Design

Kamila Biały; Piotr F. Piasek

doi:10.18778/1733-8069.20.1.03

Authors

Kamila Biały University of Lodz, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4933-3570
Piotr F. Piasek Central China Normal University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0707-4435

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8069.20.1.03

Keywords:

reproduction, emergence, inflections, biographical narrative interview, interview about the present

Abstract

The narrative biographical interview is a research tool that has been successfully used to study the reproductions of the overall constellations of social life that occur within an individual life. The entire methodological proposal as well as the issue of reproduction are based on a dichotomous epistemology. In the presented article, we analyse this issue of reproduction as it appears in Fritz Schütze’s work. Next, we describe a proposal for an alternative narrative interview – interview about the present based on a non-dichotomous epistemology. In our opinion, this epistemological perspective addresses the issue of reproduction in a completely different way. And, more importantly it introduces in the field of sociology an issue of emergence. To illustrate this non-dichotomous logics, we are using the material from one of the interviews from the research data collection.

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Author Biographies

Kamila Biały, University of Lodz, Poland

Sociologist (Department of Sociology of Art, University of Lodz), Gestalt therapist; her area of interest is epistemology, methodology, and ethics as pertaining to sociological problems inspired by contemporary phenomenology.

Piotr F. Piasek, Central China Normal University

Sociologist and philosopher (the Central China Normal University); his scientific interests include the ontological and epistemological problems of social sciences (phenomenology, systems theories).

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