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NEWS AND PROGRESS 2001
Empiriska grundarlagið í ritgerðini er
ein analysa av søguligu eins og nútíðar
menningina í tveimum ógvuliga ymiskum
fiskivinnubygdum, Klaksvík í Føroyum, og
Bátsfjord, í Finnmørkini í Norðurnoregi.
Við at nýta kvalitativu case-metoduna (t.d.
Glaser og Strauss; Ragin; Yin) verða tær
vinnuligu kreppur og broytingar, sum farn-
ar eru fram gjøgnum nítiárini, lýstar og
analyseraðar. Empiriska tilfarið í ritgerðini
er fyrst av øllum bygt á samrøður, umframt
eina røð av søguligum og øðrum skrivlig-
um keldutilfari. Søguliga tilgongdin er ein
av fleiri mátum at analysera orsøkir og
mekanismur, ið eru við til at geva lokal-
samfeløg síni sereyðkenni í nútíðini.
Til tess at røkka hesum endamáli verður
bygd upp ein yvirskipað analytisk ramma,
sum byggir á hugtøkini globalisering, sosi-
alt samfeldi (embeddedness) og lokalar
”coping strategiir”. Henda tilgongdin kann
sigast vera ”post-disipliner”, eftirsum hon
dregur saman træðrir frá nýggjari teorium
innan sosiologi, institutionellari búskapar-
frøði, sosial-búskaparfrøði, umframt at hon
hevur íblástur frá antropologiskt inspirer-
aðari kontekstanalysu.
Hugtakið ”coping strategies” er tann
empiriskt-analytiska ramman, ið verður
nýtt at dreggja ta mongd av informasjónum
og handlingum, sum ein kontekstanalysa
inniber. Hugtakið inniheldur tríggjar
dimensjónir, sum eru: 1) Innovasjón, ið er
lyklakomponenturin í búskaparligari
broyting, 2) Netverk, sum er lyklakompon-
enturin í sosialum strukturum, umframt 3)
Tradisjón, ið er lyklakomponenturin í allari
mentan. Analysan vísir, at hesar dimen-
sjónir verða kombineraðar á heilt ymiskan
Norway. By using the qualitative case
method (Glaser and Strauss, Ragin, Yin),
the economic crisis and changes during the
1990s are described and analysed. The em-
pirical material is based on different
sources, such as interviews, and historical
and other written material.. The historical
approach is one of several ways with which
to analyse causes and mechanisms which
give local communities their specifíc char-
acteristics at present.
To reach these objectives, an analytical
framework is constructed based on the con-
cepts of globalisation, embeddedness and
local coping strategies. This approach can
be seen as ’post-disciplinary’ as it com-
bines aspects from recent thinking within
sociological theory, institutional econom-
ics, socio-economics and anthropological-
ly- inspired, context-dependent analysis.
The concept of ”coping strategies” is the
empircial-analytical frame, which is used
to capture the wealth of information and
actions that a context-dependent analysis
implies. This concept consists of three di-
mensions, which are: 1) Innovation, as the
core concept in economic change. 2) Net-
work, as the key factor in the structured re-
lations between individual and organisa-
tions within and outside an institutionally
defíned domain; and 3) Tradition, which is
the key factor in culture. The analysis
shows how these dimensions are used and
combined very differently in the economic
actions taken to overcome the structural
crisis of these localities.
Even though the point of departure is
concrete and empirical, the purpose is to
reach analytical generalisation. This is pri-