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Zenicexperiments)appliedtodeconstructthemindaspartofalived
orderinacertainlocationand-inthewakeofthat-mindfulness.
Thesixthchapterdealswiththeproblemoftherelationshipbetween
thecontemporaryusageoftechnologyinqualitativeresearchand
analysisofdatainsociology(usingtechnicaldevicessuchascomputers
andsoftware)andthesociologicalmind.Theresearchandanalysisof
socialrelationsandsocialworldsareveryoftenconductedusingthe
technologythatwedefinehere,inaverybroadsense,asmethodical
andtechnicalprocedures,software,calculatingdevicesandtechnical
devicesfortheobservationoftheWorldandrecordingdata,anddevices
fortheanalysisofquantitativeandqualitativedata.Technologycould
beusedasinstrumentforanalysingtheHexternalworld”(through
aninstrumentaluseoftechnology)bytheHindependent”sociological
mind.Thisisanattitudethatisapartofthemodernisticapproachto
Hsociety”.
Herewealsoanalysetheroleoftechnologyinproducingsociological
knowledge,whiletakingintoconsiderationthehistorical,political,and
ideologicaldimensionsofthephenomenon.Theproductionofknowledge
isdonebyindividualsociologists,whoareimmersedinthesocialworld
ofsociology,andtheprocessisperformedinthehereandnowby
particularsociologistsusingthetechnologyofproceduresandmaterial
devices.Wealsoanalysethetechnologyinuseandtheexperiencesof
technologythatproducetheknowledge.
Thequestionsaddressedinthischapterareasfollows:
1.Dosociologists,intheirthinking,dependonthetechnologythey
useinresearchingsociety,oristhetechnologyonlyinstrumentalto
theirHindependentsociologicalmind”?
2.Isobserving/beingawareoftheuseoftechnologyinevery
momentaliberatingstrategyforasociologist?
Theseproblemsareanalysedviathephenomenologicalexplication
ofexperiencesofusingtheCAQDAStechnology(ComputerAssisted
QualitativeDataAnalysis).ItwasusedtheconceptofRichardHycner
forouranalysisofqualitativedata,inourcasetheauto-reportsfrom
thesessionsofuseoftechnologytoanalysequalitativedata.Theauto-
reportsideacomesfromtheinspirationofthecontemplativeinquiry
modelofsocialscience.
Theseventhchapterexaminestheissueofhowtheorganizational
cultureofacertaininstitutionisbeingexperienced,byreconstructing
theleadingthemescomingfromauto-observationanddescriptionsof
it.Insteadofinvestigatinghowitisperceivedorhowitsvaluesare
verbalized,thestudyundertakestoanalysetheactualexperiencing
ofcertainspacesandsocialrelations,aswellashowtheseare