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In this connection it seems to me to make methodological sense to design research as exploration, so that it is an open process. It is essential to be prepared for experiences and reflections for which conventional questions, concepts and categories are of little use. When complex relationships are assumed, then there is little point in asking direct questions about membership of large-scale groups. A priority, it seems to me, is the identification of (and change in) the criteria by which presentday children gauge membership of a group and by which they distinguish between 'us' and 'them'.
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