Interpretation and method : empirical research methods and the interpretive turn / / edited by Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea

• Pubblicazione: Armonk, N.Y., : M.E. Sharpe, c2006; London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (553 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.072
• Soggetto topico: Political science - Methodology; Political science - Research - Methodology
• Altri autori: Schwartz-SheaPeregrine <1955-> YanowDvora
• Note generali: First published 2014 by M.E. Sharpe.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Science7. 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 IndiaIII. 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 Space22. 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Interpretation and method
• ISBN: 1-317-46735-3; 1-315-70327-0; 1-317-46736-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825636003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II