Journal Analysis Overview

meta - moving forward in this project

  • formulate theoretical motivations
    • idea-spurting, coagulation of these new ideas, and producing reading lists based on these.
    • time-intensive reading. readings -> motivation -> readings.
    • converses with analysis, in that impractical ideas are not explored too deeply.
    • converses with "conclusions" in that stuff that is known or not "interesting" / placable shouldn't be pursued.
    • produces some specific steps for analysis.
  • analytical moves
    • building analytical skills
      • when theoretically desirable next steps involve skills I don't have...
      • identify the skill, and work towards acquiring that skill, and applying it to these problems
    • based on (some selection of) theoretical drafts. rank these by practicality / interest & pursue.
    • data, algorithms, visualization.
    • produces datasheets describing the dataset and cleaned/annotated code.
  • formulating conclusions
    • use datasheets output from analysis to isolate results of interest
    • scour the literature to place & understand the finding
    • produces a final write-up

theoretical threads / questions

  • tracing symbolic boundaries in sociological discourse
    • restricted to theory sections?
    • see the older draft at the top
  • tracing consensus in sociological terminology (bstrm)
    • what do the words mean?
    • how is that changing / disagreed on?
    • look for polysemy, and its' collapsing
  • (related) look for direct contradictions, disagreements; map these
  • tracing conversations over time, and the authors that participate in them here