Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

✍ Scribed by Dvora Yanow, Peregrine Schwartz-Shea

• Publisher: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 553
• Edition: 2. ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography. Reflecting on their own research experiences, the contributors offer an inside, applied perspective on how research topics, evidence, and methods intertwine to produce knowledge in the social sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Wherefore "Interpretive?" An Introduction
I. Meaning and Methodology
1. Thinking Interpretively Philosophical Presuppositions and the Human Sciences
2. Contending Conceptions of Science and Politics Methodology and the Constitution of the Political
3. Figuring Authority, Authorizing Statistics
4. Working with Concepts Challenging the Language-Reality Dichotomy
5. Generalization in Comparative and Historical Social Science The Difference That Interpretivism Makes
6. Neither Rigorous nor Objective? Interrogating Criteria for Knowledge Claims in Interpretive Science
7. Judging Quality Evaluative Criteria and Epistemic Communities
II. Generating Data
8. Talking Our Way to Meaningful Explanations A Practice-Centered View of Interviewing for Interpretive Research
9. Ordinary Language Interviewing
10. Seeing with an Ethnographic Sensibility Explorations Beneath the Surface of Public Policies
11. Ethnography, Identity, and the Production of Knowledge
12. High Politics and Low Data Globalization Discourses and Popular Culture
13. The Numeration of Events Studying Political Protest in India
III. Analyzing Data
14. Making Sense of Making Sense Configurational Analysis and the Double Hermeneutic
15. Studying the Careers of Knowledge Claims A Guide
16. Critical Interpretation and Interwar Peace Movements Challenging Dominant Narratives
17. Political Science as History A Reflexive Approach
18. Value-Critical Policy Analysis The Case of Language Policy in the United States
19. Stories for Research
20. Don’t Judge a Cartoon by Its Image Interpretive Approaches to the Study of Political Cartoons
21. How Built Spaces Mean A Semiotics of Space
22. On Not Just Finding What You (Thought You) Were Looking For Reflections on Fieldwork Data and Theory
23. “May I See Your Color-Coded Badge?” Reflections on Research with “Vulnerable” Communities
IV. Re-Recognizing the Human Sciences Through Interpretive Methodologies
24. We Call It a Grain of Sand The Interpretive Orientation and a Human Social Science
25. Doing Social Science in a Humanistic Manner
References
Abut the Editors and Contributors
Index