The analysis of collective mindsets: Introducing a New Method of Institutional Analysis in Comparative Research

Autores

  • Markus Pohlmann Heidelberg University
  • Stefan Bär Heidelberg University
  • Elizangela Valarini Heidelberg University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/rsp.v22i52.39142

Palavras-chave:

qualitative methods, interpretation pattern, qualitative social research, analysis of collective mindsets, institutional analysis.

Resumo

This article presents a specific qualitative method – the Collective Mindset Analysis (CMA) – that is applicable within the frame of institutional analysis to map the cognitive and normative institutions at work. The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the method and its methodology as well. The paper will elaborate on how the method is applied to international research and will provide concrete examples drawn from a bigger research project on economic elites in eleven countries. It will demonstrate the steps of interpretation of interview material from this project with the help of CMA, using concrete text sequences. The sequences have been extracted from interviews with Brazilian top managers that were conducted in the context of an international research project. The paper will show, how an institutional approach, that is relying on the sociology of knowledge, can be supported by a method, that helps to reconstruct the cognitive and normative rules in a given culture and to analyze, how these rules are translated in action orientations to solve culturally significant problems. Thus, the method can be a remedy for the shortcomings of institutional analysis in mapping and comparing the knowledge stocks in different cultures and a new tool in international comparative research.

Biografia do Autor

Markus Pohlmann, Heidelberg University

Markus Pohlmann (markus.pohlmann@soziologie.uni-heidelberg.de) is Full Professor in Sociology at the Max-Weber Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University (Germany).

Stefan Bär, Heidelberg University

Stefan Bär (stefan.baer@soziologie.uni-heidelberg.de) is Postdoctoral Scholar and Lecturer at the Max-Weber Institute of Sociology,Heidelberg University (Germany).

Elizangela Valarini, Heidelberg University

Elizangela Valarini (elizangela.valarini-seiss@soziologie.uni-heidelberg.de) is a PhD Student and Research Assistant at the
Max-Weber Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University (Germany).

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Publicado

24-12-2014

Como Citar

Pohlmann, M., Bär, S., & Valarini, E. (2014). The analysis of collective mindsets: Introducing a New Method of Institutional Analysis in Comparative Research. Revista De Sociologia E Política, 22(52), 07–25. https://doi.org/10.5380/rsp.v22i52.39142

Edição

v. 22 n. 52 (2014): dezembro

Seção

Dossiês

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