The axis is based on flow-state diagram, bottom left to top right. See flow-state diagrams for valence integration.
| → | finite, doctrinaire, traditional restraint of generalizing | ||||||||||||||||
| → | traditions, with respect to areas, categories, subjects, schools of thought, and people. bounded and constrained | open, free, not tied down to conventional, and more generalizing; alienated until accepted. | |||||||||||||||
| → | theoretical coverage leads only to partial closures as always new ideas help theory to work and be modified | transcend traditional boundaries of analysis, theory, and categories. marginal until arrive. | |||||||||||||||
| → | theoretical coverage – only those ideas that work and the more parsimonious the better | full coverage leads to scholarly closures – all literature covered | ↑ | ||||||||||||||
| → | learned people love to point out gaps in analysis and put down one another | full scholarly coverage based on the literature – non-parsimonious | ↑ | ||||||||||||||
| → | deductive preconceived logic applied to understanding data | work with what one has, not apologize for what one has not | ↑ | ||||||||||||||
| → | source (“great man”) of ideas is often more important than ideas (you are a scholar because you have read and learned people). | derive or induce logic from data that fit and work are more important than scholarly source | ↑ | ||||||||||||||
| → | criticize – highly evaluative | own ideas and ideas from data that fit and work are more important than scholarly source | ↑ | ||||||||||||||
| → | argument over ideas | earn ideas – generated from data or emergently fitted to data | ↑ | ||||||||||||||
| → | correct rendition of ideas | advise on ideas | ↑ | ||||||||||||||
| → | reading, learning, remembering | taking chances with ideas, not always correct, while fitting them to data | ↑ | ||||||||||||||
| scholarship | thinking, generating ideas | ↑ | |||||||||||||||
| analysis | ↑ | ||||||||||||||||
(Glaser, 1978, pp. 11-12)
References
Glaser, B. G. (1978). Theoretical sensitivity. Sociology Press.