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 constrainedopen, 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 modifiedtranscend traditional boundaries of analysis, theory, and categories. marginal until arrive.↑
→theoretical coverage – only those ideas that work and the more parsimonious the betterfull coverage leads to scholarly closures – all literature covered↑
→learned people love to point out gaps in analysis and put down one anotherfull scholarly coverage based on the literature – non-parsimonious↑
→deductive preconceived logic applied to understanding datawork 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 evaluativeown ideas and ideas from data that fit and work are more important than scholarly source↑
→argument over ideasearn ideas – generated from data or emergently fitted to data↑
→correct rendition of ideasadvise on ideas↑
→reading, learning, rememberingtaking chances with ideas, not always correct, while fitting them to data↑
scholarshipthinking, generating ideas↑
analysis↑

(Glaser, 1978, pp. 11-12)

References

Glaser, B. G. (1978). Theoretical sensitivity. Sociology Press.