Frame analysis

The concept of frame analysis ( engl. frame analysis, in German also frame analysis) is based on a socio - cognitive concept of Erving Goffman in 1974. frame are therefore interpretation schemes that enable the individual as an organizing principle for everyday experiences to categorize social incidents and events and to interpret. Individuals answered so selectively the question what is involved in the object of his contemplation without developing already own to your own position. The sociological study of these schemes is referred to as frame analysis or framework analysis.

Overview of the terms and concepts in sociology

Meanwhile, a number of sociological methods are referred to as " frame analysis " that do not necessarily relate to Goffman or use your own terms instead of the term frame. Christian Roesler and Rainer Winter speak of " framing ". Winter also of "interpretation schemes "; Peter Hühn speaks of " situation schemata ," Gerhard and knight of " interpretative patterns ", Schmidke and Eder, and Friedhelm Neidhardt and Ruch of "collective patterns of meaning ".

Frames as patterns of interpretation

After Myra Marx Ferree can frame based on the translation of the term as a "picture frame " on two principles represent back. First, by means of frames between the outside and inside = not important = important distinction. This is where the lug contacts with the notion of system boundaries in systems theory, but delivers on the second level of the frame structures and patterns that indicate things that lie behind the image. Pamela Oliver and Hank Johnston examine ideological positions that are stored one frame in this context. In the interpretation pattern analysis, the focus is on the question of how the meanings are arranged in a frame. Thus, frames can help to ensure that a particular event can be viewed in a particular context, semantic or normative or should.

Frames as the enemy

An analysis of solidified frames ( Van Dijk, Wodak ) can be comparable to illustrate stereotypes that certain socio - cognitive settings lead to the enemy.

Frame analysis of Erving Goffman

For Goffman frame analysis means analyzing the Organization of Experience. The aim of this analysis is

" Work out some of the basic framework, which in our society for the understanding of events available, and to analyze their specific weak points "

Under a framework he understands based on Gregory Bateson those organizing principles by which for ( social) events and the kind of sympathy for these definitions of a situation are set up. There are patterns of interpretation or interpretation schemes which make otherwise meaningless aspects of a scene into something meaningful. Framework thus enable " localization, perception, identification and designation of a seemingly unlimited number of concrete occurrences defined in terms of the frame. " Depending on the context in which an event is set, it takes on a different meaning.