Since this life already involves understanding, the analysis is a process in which the researcher creates an understanding of what and how other people understand themselves on the basis of the researcher's own pre-understandings.
The text spoke to the first author and her pre-understandings (existential and professional role as a district nurse) made the text understandable.
In addition, interviewers should understand that the interview narratives should not be contaminated by their pre-understanding, i.e., the meaning attributed according to personal experiences, theoretical understanding, hypotheses or assumptions [ 49].
The method allowed the researcher to understand the nature of the experience, making visible own pre-conceptions and pre-understanding of the phenomenon.
An increasing migration from non-Western countries to Norway and potential double-stress for multicultural families experiencing critical illness are pre-understandings.
The purpose (and hope) of such an endeavor is a breakdown in understanding, i.e., a misfit between our pre-understandings of a research field and the empirical material (Alvesson & Karreman 2007).
In the case of the intermediary, our pre-understandings primarily involved the assumption that the human factor is important in intermediation and that intermediation also therefore includes (among other things) issues of power, creativity, and self-interest.
The project is implausible since the range and depth of pre-understanding is so extensive as to be untheorisable.
This tacit "pre-understanding" makes possible our familiar dwelling with things and others in the familiar, everyday world.
To condemn pre-understanding as unjustifiable because it cannot be methodologically grounded is highly dangerous as it devalues those very insights upon which our initial world-orientation depends.
The results show that the risks were interpreted and assessed largely dependent on their pre-understanding and familiarity with the individual risks.
