Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES 13 of past experience, education, training, family-community-regional-natio ...

14 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY tacit knowledge, creating a sense of “how we do things here.” This works well until a third person ar ...

PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES 15 opposition to a methodological individualism that denies the significanc ...

16 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY and interpreting, and the community of “readers” (interpreters) engaged in that process and shar- ing ...

PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES 17 process, a practice that itself constitutes a significant departure from ...

18 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY stand in for, to represent, their embedded meanings. The point is clearest in Goffman’s (e.g., 1959, ...

PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES 19 Individuals and collective entities also use language, whether written o ...

20 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY One can delineate four interpretive moments over the course of a research project.^34 Assume that we ...

PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES 21 forth; see, for example, Ciardi 1959). Contending, in turn, with this ap ...

22 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY in considerations of power and power relations, as well as privileged speech and silences in col- lec ...

PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES 23 researcher’s expert role from technical-rational subject-matter expertis ...

24 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY William James credited Charles Pierce with the coinage of the term, although Pierce did not like Jam ...

PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES 25 to perceive, to recognize, to grasp with the faculties of the mind; to h ...

26 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY shared way of seeing, defining, and researching a scientific “problem” and to the community of scient ...

CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS 27 27 CHAPTER 2 CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS Methodology and th ...

28 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY ❖❖❖ Etymologically, the term “methodology” arises from the conjunction of three Greek concepts: meta, ...

CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS 29 within the European Union and its aspiring member states; regional and genocid ...

30 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY On the grounds that only those knowledge claims founded directly upon observable experi- ence can be ...

CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS 31 involved the deductive subsumption of particular observations under a general ...

32 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY for further investigation. To grasp the role of theory in structuring scientific observation, how- ev ...