Gregory+Niguidula+-+Core+Categories

Management Policy – What rules and regulations are in place? How do they influence the work being done? How can these policies be changed? The way these enforce the hegemony should be examined, as should the motivations for their existences. Also, the influence of scientific research and other forces on policy creation should be examined.

Management Practice – How are the rules and regulations turned into action? What role does the current scientific research play? What role does the community play?

Interdisciplinarity – Where do separate fields of science come together? Where could they? How common is interdisciplinary research and why is it being done? What can be gained from such an approach?

Ideals/Idealized images - There are ideals being reached for either consciously or subconsciously. What are they? Are they ultimately beneficial? To what extent are they based on facts? To what extent are they based on sentimentality and emotional responses?

**Note from class:** Dorothy Smith also termed core categories as "commitments" because they are the things in the project that you are committed to.