Working Together, Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice Poteete Jannsen Ostrom 2009




Working Together, Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple  Methods in Practice Poteete Jannsen Ostrom 2009
chapter one def written by someone who knows the field.  i suspect that int hose sentences that are both very general and very well cited  sentences that the citations are well-known enough to serve in the sentences as semantic content and that, therefore, much is going over my head.

This first chapter reads more like History and Philosophy of Science papers, witht he sociological angles, than anything else.  I guess the point is to put the range of scientific methodologies into perspective, with respect to each other, as a necessary preliminary step to incorporating many different such methods towards broader common research goals.  Based ont his chapter, I wouldn't guess that the book is about collective action.  But knowing that it is, the first chapter is an exciting preparation for it.  Eager to see how formal and field methods are used to support each other.

The use of the word "puzzle" is conspicuous enough to make me suspect it is a prominent father-researcher's vocabulary word, being used in a specific way.

Focus on career incentives and nature of data collection and even economic-history-of-academia factors on what kind of research is and can be done by different methods.

*"In this chapter, we introduce four themes that recur through the book: (1) the interlinking 
of methodological debates with theoretical development, (2) the advantages and limitations of 
multiple methods and collaborative research, (3) practical constraints on methodological choices, 
and (4) the often problematic influence of career incentives on methodological practice."