Sense-making Analysis: A Framework for Multi-Strategy and Cross-Country Research

To illustrate the framework, we cite text.” In other words, different types of language use and the examples from a sense-making analysis of the concept of soci- settings in which interaction takes place, crucially affect the etal transformations, among the most topical concepts in inter- shaping of meaning. [...] The rationales for and effects of different sense-making practices fall outside the scope of our entails a combination of several types of data and methods. [...] Our cross-country approach allows us to explore how sim- For instance, returning to the Cabo Verde example, both the ilar distinctions between today’s society and the scarcity of country’s contribution to the Paris Agreement as well as personal previous generations were made in several focus groups across accounts in the focus groups displayed the same narrative: the countries, but to different en. [...] Secretary General of the UN and authored by an international In addition, the horizontal analysis also poses questions to panel of high-level representatives of governments, academia, the data based on themes in the vertical analyses. [...] out the datasets, and that were related to the process of In writing up the results of the vertical and horizontal anal- transformation rather than transformation goals.