Fisk-Memo15

After thinking about this for the two weeks following my somewhat broken answer in class, I must admit I am still struggling with the concept of "Core Categories".

I think that maybe I need a core category which centers on the construction of online deviance. Something like "cyber-criminals" or "online predators" - part of the problem is that I'm not sure what to call it. The online deviant is a recurrent category throughout the data I've read through already, but the fact that there does not appear to be a widely agreed upon term for describing those who would fit in such a category is part of what I am interested in examining.

But the category of "online deviance" or "technological deviance" may still be a core category...
 * It accounts for patterns of language/action, and is problematic to those who I would study.
 * It is recurrent in the data, and I'll be trying to theorizie online/technological deviance, making it more conceptually robust.
 * I'm not sure that it is integrative. It doesn't seem like a "theoretical concept" to me, for reasons I am having difficulty articulating. I want to say it's not "explanatory" but that's not entirely what I mean.
 * It certainly privileges scope - there is broad variation across a variety of discourses.
 * I'm somewhat confused about what my other key categories are - but I can't imagine it wouldn't relate

I am honestly unsure of what a second core category might be... For now, I'll go back to Strauss & Corbin...