ABSTRACT

As has been presented earlier, the development of the methods used in this study adheres to the principle of ethnomethodology’s ‘unique adequacy requirement.’ Essentially this request for a methodological concept that befits the subject matter is based on the assumption that there is a strong rapport between the research subject and the instruments used for its scientific examination; that research subject and methods are mutually constitutive. In other words, the way one perceives a scientifically interesting matter largely depends on one’s methodological eyeglasses. The data analysis from Part C was primarily based on reconstructive data gathered by ethnographic methods. The concept and reflection of the ethnographic procedure have been thoroughly discussed in Part B.