Theorizing is a Practice

Theorizing is a practice. It entails the practical activity of engaging the world and of constructing abstract understandings about and within it." - Kathy Charmaz

As I fight my way toward obtaining this Ph. D. I am learning a lot about myself as a scholar. I have been properly introduced to the world of Qualitative research and I am in love. Like anything else that I love, I feel a need to explore it, understand it, and immerse myself in it with an (some might say) unhealthy intensity.

That brings us to the creation of this blog. I will be using this as a vehicle to better understanding. I do not, nor will I ever, profess to get it 100% right (besides what is "right" anyway). However, I will try to understand it as comprehensively as I can. To my fellow sojourners, I urge you to help my co-construct this knowledge. healthy disagreement is welcome, enlightenment encouraged, and curiosity rewarded. Negativity, however, must be left at the door.

This blog is about ways of knowing, particularly through an interpretivist's lens with a focus on research methodolgy. It may sometimes veer off the beaten path of formalized reasearch methodology, but it will keep at its core a continued quest for understanding what it means to look at the world as an interpretivist.

As Charmaz says, theorizing is a practice. This is my practice.