ABSTRACT
As a researcher, the answers you find depend on the questions you ask. The social world is infinitely complex, and researchers are, intrinsically, part of it. The stimulus for researchers interested in investigating social phenomena relates to their initial interpretation of the experience of people they elect to study; and the ideas and generalisations they develop may-by design or by defaultimpact on the practice of those same people where the researchers’ ideas and generalisations filter down to them (Giddens 1976) through, for example, publications like this book. Whether implicitly or not, researchers begin a study with some conceptual baggage or orientation. The theoretical orientation of this study was explicit, the purpose of the present chapter being to unpack the baggage which framed the investigation to explain why certain questions were asked which led to particular kinds of answer.
