사회적 갈등의 근거이론적 이해: 댐건설을 중심으로 = Grounded Theory for Social Conflict: The Case of Dam Construction

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Using a grounded theory approach, this study investigates what really happens in the minds of pro- and anti-dam-construction leaders in the time of severe conflict, and subsequently how they react to the conflicting situation. This study has selected as its case the Han Tan Gang dam construction project and conducted in-depth interviews with those involved in the conflict concerning the dam construction. The result of the open, axial, and selective coding indicates that, firstly, distrust is the central category for the conflict. Secondly, such distrust is aggravated by the perceptions that the people on the other side are ‘selfish and short-sighted,’ and ‘not frank.’ Finally, distrust ends up groping for dialogue, confrontation, or defiance of the other side being conditioned upon the working of the variables such as the perception about unfairness in the distribution of costs and benefits, the degree of directness and amount of interest involved, the sense of efficacy, the perception about the capability of the other side, the sense of legitimacy, the capability to view the situation from the other’s standpoint, and the degree of personal intimacy.