1. Context
   1. Quantity vs Quatlity
      1. Nature of things
         1. what
         2. How
         3. When
         4. Where
         5. Why
      2. Refers to
         1. Meanings
         2. Concepts
         3. Definitions
         4. Characteristics
         5. Metaphors
         6. Symbols
         7. Descriptions
   2. Needs to
      1. Be more precise
      2. Be careful in their
         1. Definitions
         2. Procedures
         3. Clearer in their writing
      3. Repetitiveness
         1. Same phenomenon
         2. Methods
            1. Similar
            2. Different
2. Techniques
   1. Methods for collecting data
      1. Interviews
      2. Focus groups
      3. Ethnography
      4. Sociometry
      5. Unobstrusive measures
      6. Historiography
      7. Case studies
      8. Quantitative data-gathering techniques
      9. Measure interactions
      10. Subtema 10
   2. Measure interactions
   3. Participatory research studies
   4. Content analysis
3. Triangulation
   1. Different methods
      1. Different facets
      2. Same symbolic reality
   2. Origin
      1. Multiple lines of sight
      2. Tirangle of error
      3. Convergent validation
   3. Lines of action
      1. Multiple data-collection for a single concept
      2. Multiple theories
      3. Multiple researchers
      4. Multiple methodologies
   4. Represents
      1. Varieties of data
      2. Investigators
      3. Theories
      4. Methods
   5. Cathegories
      1. Data triangulation
         1. Time
         2. Space
         3. Person
            1. Aggregate
            2. Interactive
            3. Collectivity
      2. Investigator triangulation
         1. Mulitple obsesrvers
         2. Same object
      3. Multiple perspectives
   6. Process
      1. Research idea
         1. Multiple theories
         2. Multiple researchers
         3. Multiple data technologies
      2. Research findings
4. Participant observation
   1. Observation of experimental natural settings
   2. Photographic techniques
   3. Historical analysis
   4. Document and textual analysis
   5. Sociomentry
   6. Sociodrama
   7. Ethnomethodological experimentation
   8. Ethnographic research
   9. Unbstrusive techniques
5. Defining an orientation
   1. Purpose of research
      1. Make questions
      2. Discover answers
      3. Systematic procedures
   2. Goals
      1. Seek for patterns
      2. How people
         1. Learn about
         2. Make sense of themselve and others
   3. Symbolic interaction
      1. Interpreting the social world
         1. Human behaviour
            1. Learning
            2. Biological institct
         2. Encoding meanings
            1. Language
            2. Sumbol systems
         3. Sensory world
            1. Create meanings
            2. Intrinsically attached
            3. Psychical accretion
            4. Social process
            5. People interacting
            6. Activities
            7. Raw material
            8. Social roles
            9. Institutional structures
            10. Rules
            11. Norms
            12. Goals
            13. Interpretation
      2. Common elements
         1. Human interaction: central source of data
         2. Key issues
            1. Participants' perspectives
            2. Ability to take roles
         3. Definitions of a situation
            1. View
            2. Inhabitans
            3. Define a situation
            4. Actions
            5. Nature
            6. Meaning
         4. Ability to use symbols
         5. Focus on the social process
            1. Define situations
            2. Delect particular courses of action
         6. Negotiation of definitions
         7. Emphatic role-taking
      3. Schools
         1. Chicago school orientation
            1. Casuality
            2. Deterministically
            3. Logical positivism
            4. Specify operationa definitions of concetps
            5. Test
            6. No meaning in
            7. Objects
            8. People
            9. Situations
            10. Events
            11. Meaning in Huma Interaction
            12. Social institutions
            13. Relatively stable networks
            14. Social positions
            15. Associated norms
            16. Expectations
            17. Human behaviour
            18. Nature of one's core self
            19. Internalized expectations
            20. One's expectations in a given situation
            21. Understand
            22. Definitions
            23. Mainings
            24. Processes
            25. Negotiated interpretation of
            26. Objects
            27. Events
            28. Situations
         2. Iowa School
            1. Indeterministic
            2. No casuality
            3. Human behaviors doesn't come from
            4. Social structures
            5. Social organizations
            6. Social structures
            7. Emergent phenomenon
            8. Product of shared interpretations
            9. Internal symbolic process
            10. Group together various behaviours
            11. Organized coherent pattern
            12. Shaping
            13. Creation of structures
            14. Maintenance of structures
            15. trnasformation of structures
            16. Focus on
            17. Subjects' meanings
            18. Expectations
            19. Perceptions
            20. Phenomenologists
            21. Methods
            22. Non generalizing
            23. Non idiographics
            24. Make social life intellible
            25. Act of research
            26. Process of symbolic interaction
            27. Take the role of the subjects
            28. Two-fold agenda
            29. Exploration
            30. Eximine
            31. Observe
            32. Inspection
            33. Refine concepts
            34. Produce general statement