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Background and history. -- The critics. Sensitizing concepts as anomalies in Blumer's social scientific procedure. Sensitizing concepts as lacking in social structural dimensions. Sensitizing concepts as characterized by vagueness. Sensitizing concepts as nominal definitions. Sensitizing concepts as restricting the range for collecting data. Sensitizing concepts as going stale. -- Taking distance from the data. Folk concepts or terms. Sensitizing concepts. Sensitizing supra-concepts. -- Constructing sensitizing concepts. Step 1: Deriving concepts from participants' perspective. Step 2: Exploring and using focus groups. Step 3: Inspecting and dimensionalizing. Step 4: Relating to other social contexts. Step 5: Organizing the same family of terms. -- Cross-cultural settings. The Icelandic field setting. -- Theoretical and analytical implications. Qualitative and quantitative approaches. Sociological theory. Cognate disciplines.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-83).