Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

VALUE-CRITICAL POLICY ANALYSIS 313 unexamined first premises and our logic building from these premises is often unexamined as w ...

314 ANALYZING DATA As noted, there are many more fruitful and illuminating approaches to critically assessing the value assumpti ...

VALUE-CRITICAL POLICY ANALYSIS 315 of the language policy debate, I concluded with a recommended policy approach that combines a ...

316 ANALYZING DATA 316 CHAPTER 18 STORIES FOR RESEARCH STEVEN MAYNARD-MOODY AND MICHAEL MUSHENO SM-M: In the late 1970s, when I ...

STORIES FOR RESEARCH 317 MM: I had an interpretive field research moment very early in my academic career, although I did not kn ...

318 ANALYZING DATA have a carefully designed research plan, but the plan did not preclude the surprises that waited for us in th ...

STORIES FOR RESEARCH 319 Moody and Leland 1999; Maynard-Moody and Musheno 2000, 2003; Oberweis and Musheno 1999, 2001). The rese ...

320 ANALYZING DATA trol are the prominent themes of the State-Agent Narrative and are understood within the context of structure ...

STORIES FOR RESEARCH 321 That said, our working definition of “stories” is close to the everyday use of the term. Stories in our ...

322 ANALYZING DATA tive research. Nevertheless, we were compelled to ask how we could get others to tell their stories in a form ...

STORIES FOR RESEARCH 323 norms and beliefs, the distinctions between fact and fiction are meaningless: Inventions and em- bellis ...

324 ANALYZING DATA enough stories such that one is hearing similar accounts coming from different storytellers, sug- gestive tha ...

STORIES FOR RESEARCH 325 tion workers much more closely and were more likely to trigger their more personal reflections about re ...

326 ANALYZING DATA while on patrol during down times between calls. After each session, we would schedule the next story collect ...

STORIES FOR RESEARCH 327 tation, one cannot meaningfully take statements out of their narrative context; doing so obscures their ...

328 ANALYZING DATA And now she found somebody that had a good dependable older little Toyota for like $1,500. Well, if you have ...

STORIES FOR RESEARCH 329 and, in the end, save taxpayer dollars. And it was a happy ending for the worker, who was able to use h ...

330 ANALYZING DATA interpretations grounded in people’s understandings of their own contexts. Though distilled by the storytelle ...

INTERPRETIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS 331 331 CHAPTER 19 INTERPRETIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS Stories and Arguments in Analytical Documents CLA ...

332 ANALYZING DATA are open minds and a capacity to articulate the grounds for choosing a method and to describe how it is appli ...