Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS 33 empirical events, the task of science is falsification. In putting theories to ...

34 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY research designs. It surfaces in conceptions of explanation defined in deductive terms and in commitm ...

CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS 35 Within recent work in the philosophy of science, the epistemological and ontol ...

36 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY base” (Murray 1983, 321). Alternatively, the attempt to conceive a “fact” that exists prior to any de ...

CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS 37 logical asymmetry between verification and falsification, no falsification can ...

38 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY can be made concerning the validity of particular claims (Bernstein 1983, 92; H. Brown 1977, 93–94; G ...

CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS 39 rejects creativity, deliberative judgment, and evaluative assessments as varyi ...

40 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY The revised conception of science advanced by presupposition theorists suggests that attempts to divi ...

CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS 41 of political analysis, and various forms of political life. Focusing on four d ...

42 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY Politics as the Struggle for Power To avoid the limitations of the institutional definition, many pol ...

CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS 43 dissemination of the definition by political scientists. When “science” assert ...

44 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY Pluralists have ascribed a number of virtues to their conception of politics. It avoids the exces- si ...

CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS 45 pursuit of idiosyncratic preferences in personal, economic, moral, and politic ...

46 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY Extrapolating from organic and cybernetic analogies, both systems analysis and structural- functional ...

CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS 47 approach blurred important issues pertaining to the character of political reg ...

48 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY development. Although implementation of such policy advice is typically justified as another example ...

CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS 49 nality of science” while engaging Kuhn’s critique of positivism and critical r ...

50 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY 50 CHAPTER 3 GENERALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE The Difference That Interpre ...

GENERALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE 51 had led me to think that this literature might be the place to go ...

52 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY interpretivists ill at ease. The volume’s claims as to the need for historical perspective and sensi- ...