Abstract
Two problems are discussed - first individually and then in relation to each other: (1) Women's regulation of local interaction systems, and (2) the methodological problem of acquiring and processing information about interaction. Data collected by participant observation in a former fishing community in Northern Norway are compared with data from a suburban block town in Southern Norway. In both environments, the creation, shaping and delimitation of neighbourly contact patterns require considerable work, by women especially This work is increasing with increasing social differ entiation and regional mobility Registering their own problems in the gathering and interpretation of data, the authors attack the veiled subjectivity of objectivated science.
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