Introduction

Abstract

In this introduction, the authors outline the individual contributions to the collection and sketch the theoretical and practical research framework. "In the first part (The programme of field analysis) papers have been brought together that carve out the established basic convictions and axiomatic assumptions - the core of the research programme - and delimitate them vis-à-vis other programmes. The focus of the discussion lies on the conceptual constants of the field theoretical framework of analysis. In the second part (The instrument of the subject-related formation of theory) contains papers that deal with methodical, methodological and epistomological questions. Here the main interest of the authors is generally not only on the discussion of specific survey and evaluation instruments, but primarily on the special field analytical approach that guides practical research decisions and the way the matter is handled. Methods are employed as 'transmission belts' that are intended to produce a matching between theoretic conceptual notions and the subject-related research. Part Three (Reflexivity: Scientific field analyses) contains papers that make scientific practice, and with that the field of science itself, the object of analysis. In contrast to the previous groups of topics, these contributions no longer primarily deal with a reflexion of one's own research practice and its relationship to the field analytical research programme, but with phenomena, developments and changes in various difference scientific disciplines. Here it is a question of articles that conduct the subject-related formation of theories about the field of science and thus illuminate the contexts of humanistic and social scientific research." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku)

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Bernhard, S. & Schmidt-Wellenburg, C. (2012): Einleitung. In: S. Bernhard & C. Schmidt-Wellenburg (Hrsg.) (2012): Feldanalyse als Forschungsprogramm : Bd. 1: Der programmatische Kern, p. 9-24. DOI:10.1007/978-3-531-94259-9_1