Participant self-description
Insider category
Uses terms meaningful within a community.
Valid claim: Participants use this term with these documented meanings.
Bounded method comparison
Insider and outsider categories
How can participant vocabulary and analytical vocabulary be used together without either disappearing?
Analytical construct
Outsider category
Supports comparison or explanation across cases.
Valid claim: The analyst defines and applies this category consistently.
Shared comparison axes
- Speaker position
- Purpose
- Translation
Non-equivalences to preserve
- Self-description is not automatically population consensus.
- Analytical convenience is not indigenous ontology.
Comparison procedure
- 1.Store both vocabularies.
- 2.Declare who applies each term.
- 3.Test analytical categories against counterexamples and participant response.
Prohibited inference
Do not overwrite participant categories or exempt either vocabulary from evidence and ethical scrutiny.