Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

GENERALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE 53 She gave the phrase currency as a label for the blend of practice ...

54 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY declaration: “The establishment of the Comparative Method of study has been the greatest intellectual ...

GENERALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE 55 positivism not as a counterpart but as a contrast to the “histori ...

56 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY the modernist vision to their self-image as scientists unconvincing. The threat was more pressing, ho ...

GENERALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE 57 practices. Second, it is contended that qualitative cross-societa ...

58 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY tentions against which to explicate the agenda of comparative historical analysis and to explore the ...

GENERALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE 59 issue. Using criteria that presuppose a modernist goal, they prop ...

60 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY propositions. This involves formulating and evaluating propositions about recurring relation- ships a ...

GENERALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE 61 for gaining an understanding of such complexes. Their endeavor to ...

62 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY recurring relationships of coexistence or sequence between conceptually isolated macro factors. To an ...

GENERALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE 63 employ a comparative and historical stance in pursuit of a genera ...

64 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY turn up applications by a range of approaches—from developmental historicism to Parsonian functionali ...

GENERALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE 65 tions are, however, quite different. A belief that the contempora ...

66 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY This second image of convergence embodied a specific, modernist conception of “theory” that be- came ...

NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? 67 67 CHAPTER 4 NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? Interrogating Criteria for Knowledge Claims in I ...

68 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY As Mitchell shows in the first epigraph, although they have been treated as universals, these terms a ...

NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? 69 in a conceptually prior relationship to reliability and validity: the way the latter are oper ...

70 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY The scientific method—it is always named with the definite article, itself implying a procedural unit ...

NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? 71 craft, rehearsing a repertoire of patterns of action and interaction and response for months ...

72 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY walls, the process entails reading and rereading and reading again—musing, in an abductive^8 way (Loc ...