Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

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Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn Edited by Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea ...

4 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY Copyright © 2006 by M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in a ...

CHAPTER v v ... human behavior always comes with meaning, with intentions and purposes. That is to say, the way others see and r ...

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CONTENTS vii vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Part I. Meaning and Methodology 3 Thinking Interpretively: Philoso ...

viii CONTENTS High Politics and Low Data: Globalization Discourses and Popular Culture Jutta Weldes 176 The Numeration of Event ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Our collaboration all started with a curiosity—and a concern—about what the present genera ...

x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS were always very helpful. Our thanks, too, to Jessica Taverna for her word-processing wizardry in preparing th ...

INTRODUCTION xi xi INTRODUCTION WHAT’S “INTERPRETIVE” ABOUT INTERPRETIVE METHODS? Why designate a set of research tools and proc ...

xii INTRODUCTION These various “turns” share not only an orientation toward “taking language seriously” (J.D. White 1992; see al ...

INTRODUCTION xiii presuppositions only after extended involvement in empirical research. It is their very grounded, empirically ...

xiv INTRODUCTION particular have largely been learned through a kind of apprenticeship, through reading others’ work in a series ...

INTRODUCTION xv to concept usage—not that usage is in error, or even “merely” different or idiosyncratic (interpre- tive researc ...

xvi INTRODUCTION situation or written in such forms as organizational correspondence, government documents, or individuals’ diar ...

INTRODUCTION xvii 2004). Interpretive methods are not concerned with some of the issues that appear to claim the attention of th ...

xviii INTRODUCTION count things that they study. But even more than this: The binomial qualitative-quantitative tax- onomy has b ...

INTRODUCTION xix artifacts are physically gathered up and brought back to the lab for analysis; whereas in the nonexperimental, ...

xx INTRODUCTION the world of research methodology, and along with it the effort to argue for the standing of such methodologies ...