Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? 73 Thoreau, noting that “[i]n most books, the I, or first person, is omitted,” asked his readers ...

74 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY A Focus on Persons and Processes. The separation between mind and act becomes clear in look- ing at o ...

NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? 75 interaction with the researcher). What was “unobtrusive” was the researcher’s presence; and, ...

76 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY Research in nonverbal communication suggests yet another dimension of the impossibility of detached k ...

NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? 77 to the subject of study, but rather as potentially prejudiced against persons or settings (e. ...

78 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY oneself” in or among the community one is studying, an argument fully rooted in methodological positi ...

NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? 79 In this sense, knowing and understanding are subjective processes—understood from the view- p ...

80 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY Given, then, that interpretive researchers are and can be neither physically nor cognitively- emotion ...

NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? 81 Lastly, whereas “objectivity” requires that anything knowable be capable of being stated ex- ...

82 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY fuzzy set researcher, Ragin says, by contrast with conventional variables analysis, needs “a good bas ...

NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? 83 The relationship between the understanding of rigor as stepwise and unyielding and objec- tiv ...

84 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY NOTES An earlier version of this chapter was presented at the 2004 American Political Science Associa ...

NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? 85 student’s progress in studying a preserved fish, he said, “a pencil is one of the best of eye ...

86 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY of inputs into a set of slots or boxes, representing the categories that the individual (researcher o ...

NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? 87 dictionary.reference.com on December 16, 2004). What interpretive research does is not sampli ...

88 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY I am indebted to the discussion in Monk (2004, esp. 39–42) for helping me articulate this connection ...

EVALUATIVE CRITERIA AND EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES 89 89 CHAPTER 5 JUDGING QUALITY Evaluative Criteria and Epistemic Communities PERE ...

90 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY ❖❖❖ I feel nervous when researchers claim that their accounts of reality are far too rich and complex ...

EVALUATIVE CRITERIA AND EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES 91 sort of evaluation can you, would you, send to the journal editor or to the aut ...

92 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY understanding the interpretive criteria literature. Next, I briefly review two classic texts that lau ...