Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

EVALUATIVE CRITERIA AND EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES 113 a “truth” out in the world that is independent of researcher meaning-making pr ...

114 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY ...

ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA 115 115 PART II ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA Question: All the cocks in Kasombe Village are white ...

116 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA historical context, in which a researcher—typically from England, France, the United States or ...

ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA 117 “Accessing data,” then, is shorthand for a wide variety of methods used in generating the data ...

118 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA and living rooms, in community centers and in well-baby clinics, on shop floors and outside co ...

ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA 119 one of whom is most interested in what the other has to say about the subject of demokaraasi/ ...

120 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA interviewers in an interpretive mode long ago gave up on the idea that one could control for “ ...

ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA 121 sense used by mathematicians) elegance” (Ortner 1996, 281). This “richness, texture, and detai ...

122 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA that were widely read at the time. Restricting documentary evidence to written materials alone ...

ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA 123 standings (themselves, as discussed in chapter 1 of this volume, dependent on ontological and ...

124 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA in reality they’re no good? The refrigerator is more than twenty years old... The television w ...

ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA 125 actual occasions of use” (1989, 7). The sorts of analyses Jordan calls for are interpretive in ...

126 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA clear, it would be worth the effort for practitioners in such communities to make the tacit kn ...

TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS 127 127 CHAPTER 6 TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS A Practice-Centered View ...

128 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA “welfare mother” by making claims on a state agency? This question led to others and, over the ...

TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS 129 comments fit together as parts of a more meaningful whole. Indeed, the parts and ...

130 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA clients felt worse about their experiences than did SSDI clients. As Howard Becker points out ...

TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS 131 method such as interviewing can offer a better or worse fit for a given methodolo ...

132 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA digms, or beliefs about the relevance of meaning. Yet in practice, researchers’ orientations t ...