Bounded method comparison

Insider and outsider categories

How can participant vocabulary and analytical vocabulary be used together without either disappearing?

Evidence status

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Rely on this page for

Orientation: how the topic is organised, which terms matter, and where to start reading.

Do not rely on it for

A claim you intend to act on or repeat. Follow the cited material yourself first.

Participant self-description

Insider category

Uses terms meaningful within a community.

Valid claim: Participants use this term with these documented meanings.

Direct answer

  • How can participant vocabulary and analytical vocabulary be used together without either disappearing?

Mechanism and method

  • Store both vocabularies.
  • Declare who applies each term.
  • Test analytical categories against counterexamples and participant response.

What is measured

  • Speaker position
  • Purpose
  • Translation

Comparison: Insider and outsider categories

  • Self-description is not automatically population consensus.
  • Analytical convenience is not indigenous ontology.
  • Must not be read as: Do not overwrite participant categories or exempt either vocabulary from evidence and ethical scrutiny.

Limitations

  • Self-description is not automatically population consensus.
  • Analytical convenience is not indigenous ontology.

What this does not establish

  • Do not overwrite participant categories or exempt either vocabulary from evidence and ethical scrutiny.

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Analytical construct

Outsider category

Supports comparison or explanation across cases.

Valid claim: The analyst defines and applies this category consistently.

Direct answer

  • How can participant vocabulary and analytical vocabulary be used together without either disappearing?

Mechanism and method

  • Store both vocabularies.
  • Declare who applies each term.
  • Test analytical categories against counterexamples and participant response.

What is measured

  • Speaker position
  • Purpose
  • Translation

Comparison: Insider and outsider categories

  • Self-description is not automatically population consensus.
  • Analytical convenience is not indigenous ontology.
  • Must not be read as: Do not overwrite participant categories or exempt either vocabulary from evidence and ethical scrutiny.

Limitations

  • Self-description is not automatically population consensus.
  • Analytical convenience is not indigenous ontology.

What this does not establish

  • Do not overwrite participant categories or exempt either vocabulary from evidence and ethical scrutiny.

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Shared comparison axes

  • Speaker position
  • Purpose
  • Translation

Non-equivalences to preserve

  • Self-description is not automatically population consensus.
  • Analytical convenience is not indigenous ontology.

Comparison procedure

  1. 1.Store both vocabularies.
  2. 2.Declare who applies each term.
  3. 3.Test analytical categories against counterexamples and participant response.

Prohibited inference

Do not overwrite participant categories or exempt either vocabulary from evidence and ethical scrutiny.

Connected concepts and sources

  1. Ethical Principles for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage · UNESCO
  2. Multilingualism and Linguistic Diversity · UNESCO