Empirical studies of changes in processes versus
in things may be more challenging to operationalize.
The language humans use to talk about oui
everyday world is naturally dominated by noims,
with verbs associated with action and change taking
a secondary role. This may be one reason why
so many process studies retain, to some degree, the
language and ontology of substance even as they
explore activity, event sequences, the unfolding of
practices, enactment, and the dynamics of change.
The undifferentiated fluidity brought to the foreground
by the idea of a world in a perpetual state of
becoming renders phenomena hard to capture and
pin down for systematic analysis. This brings us to
the second major theme: process research methods