decontextualizev.
/diːkənˈtɛkstjuːəlʌɪz/ Sociology.
transitive. To study or treat (something) in isolation from its context, to take out of context.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > study of society > study society [verb (transitive)] > study or analyse by specific method
survey1953
mass-observe1970
decontextualize1977
1977 D. L. Altheide in J. D. Douglas & J. M. Johnson Existential Sociol. iv. 148 Their methods and research decontextualize these features to focus on invariant procedures for processing information.
Derivatives
deconˌtextualiˈzation n. the activity or result of decontextualizing; the condition of existing out of context.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > theories or methods of analysis
reflexivity1662
social statics1843
social causation1848
sociography1881
functionalism1904
class analysis1919
culturalism1919
mass observation1920
survey1927
participant observation1933
participant observing1933
Verstehen1934
panel technique1938
MO1939
ahistoricism1940
historicism1940
technologism1940
action research1945
metasociology1950
pattern variable1951
structural functionalism1951
structuralism1951
panel analysis1955
cliometrics1960
unilinearism1964
technology assessment1966
symbolic interactionism1969
modernization theory1972
processualism1972
postcolonialism1974
decontextualization1976
decontextualizing1980
structurism1989
1976 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 27 359 ‘The second [danger to avoid].. is to emphasize the bond between language and existence so much that the proper character of speech is denied.’ That proper character resides in the peculiar capacity of speech to acquire a limited phenomenological decontextualization.
1979 Archivum Linguisticum 1978 IX. 107 This stage, ‘decontextualisation’, is where various linguistic elements are added which have the effect of reducing as far as possible any necessity to rely on the surrounding context in order to interpret the given utterance.
deconˈtextualized adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > study of society > [adjective] > theories or methods of analysis
functional1884
Webbite1890
neo-critical1894
structural-functional1898
Tolstoyan1898
functionalist1907
Webbian1913
Paretian1916
situational1916
Paretan1932
verstehende1933
reflexive1934
same-level1934
sociographic1934
idealistic1937
ideational1937
Parsonian1945
social Darwinist1945
culturalist1948
structural1948
contextualized1951
metasociological1953
structural functionalist1953
meta-sociologistic1964
Lévi-Straussian1967
postcolonial1970
decontextualized1971
cliometric1974
postcolonialist1981
intersectional1989
1971 Sociol. Rev. XIX. 305 The imposition of analysts' decontextualised models.
1984 Guardian 25 July 11/2 Individual stories linked to their social context can reveal much more about distress than decontextualised biochemical experiments.
deconˈtextualizing n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > theories or methods of analysis
reflexivity1662
social statics1843
social causation1848
sociography1881
functionalism1904
class analysis1919
culturalism1919
mass observation1920
survey1927
participant observation1933
participant observing1933
Verstehen1934
panel technique1938
MO1939
ahistoricism1940
historicism1940
technologism1940
action research1945
metasociology1950
pattern variable1951
structural functionalism1951
structuralism1951
panel analysis1955
cliometrics1960
unilinearism1964
technology assessment1966
symbolic interactionism1969
modernization theory1972
processualism1972
postcolonialism1974
decontextualization1976
decontextualizing1980
structurism1989
1980 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. e11/3 The ‘decontextualizing’ of experience on page and screen.
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