ABSTRACT
Methodology is understood as the logic and rationale for the use of specific research methods and tools. This chapter aims to speak to a gap between discussions of dialectical materialist methodology and its use in empirical research on the dynamics of human practice. In the first half of this chapter, I summarise what I refer to as intentional, systematic-categorial and negative contributions to dialectical materialist methodology. In the second half of this chapter, I outline a theory of practice as mind-in-activity that fits this methodology and then I de-construct an empirical study of human practice in the workplace to make explicit how dialectical materialist methodology can shape use of methods and the unfolding of courses of analysis.
