The role of small and medium enterprises in economic development - The case of Kosovo

In my contribution I want to investigate, from a theoretical point of view but also with methodological and practical consequences, the qualitative role of metaphor in social research. As tool able to improve and facilitate the visualization of complex ideas and states of mind, this rhetorical figur...

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Autor principal:	Lumnije Thaçi
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Publicado:	Academicus 2012
Materias:	structure and size of small and medium enterprises employment economic growth legal provisions the informal economy human resources the issue of financing taxes Social Sciences H Economics as a science HB71-74
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:88de3ef4523c478088ad932de5a7727d2021-12-02T19:11:41ZThe role of small and medium enterprises in economic development - The case of Kosovo2079-37152309-108810.7336/academicus.2012.05.05https://doaj.org/article/88de3ef4523c478088ad932de5a7727d2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.academicus.edu.al/nr5/Academicus-MMXII-5-060-069.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/2079-3715https://doaj.org/toc/2309-1088In my contribution I want to investigate, from a theoretical point of view but also with methodological and practical consequences, the qualitative role of metaphor in social research. As tool able to improve and facilitate the visualization of complex ideas and states of mind, this rhetorical figure permits to obtain more information from interviewed people about topics hard to access in common interviews. This goal can be achieved by the build of the so called “tomen”, an artifact/experience design created by the subject(s) interviewed which represents a gate point from which explore hidden dimensions, individual as diffused. Furthermore, the metaphor offers a strong link to another concept that now in sociology needs an operative dimension, the game: a buzz word that I intend as social frame of experience positioned in an artificial setting, a “magic circle”, able to represent in its operations a collective metaphor which gives us enormous possibilities to configure and set the ground of analysis.Lumnije ThaçiAcademicusarticlestructure and size of small and medium enterprisesemploymenteconomic growthlegal provisionsthe informal economyhuman resourcesthe issue of financingtaxesSocial SciencesHEconomics as a scienceHB71-74ENAcademicus International Scientific Journal, Vol MMXII, Iss 5, Pp 60-69 (2012)
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description	In my contribution I want to investigate, from a theoretical point of view but also with methodological and practical consequences, the qualitative role of metaphor in social research. As tool able to improve and facilitate the visualization of complex ideas and states of mind, this rhetorical figure permits to obtain more information from interviewed people about topics hard to access in common interviews. This goal can be achieved by the build of the so called “tomen”, an artifact/experience design created by the subject(s) interviewed which represents a gate point from which explore hidden dimensions, individual as diffused. Furthermore, the metaphor offers a strong link to another concept that now in sociology needs an operative dimension, the game: a buzz word that I intend as social frame of experience positioned in an artificial setting, a “magic circle”, able to represent in its operations a collective metaphor which gives us enormous possibilities to configure and set the ground of analysis.
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title	The role of small and medium enterprises in economic development - The case of Kosovo
title_short	The role of small and medium enterprises in economic development - The case of Kosovo
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The role of small and medium enterprises in economic development - The case of Kosovo

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