Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS 133 ways of organizing their program experiences and drawing lessons from them, their ...

134 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA Under the methodology I pursued for Unwanted Claims, I assumed such “coherence” was necessary, ...

TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS 135 It is conventional to say that an interview is a conversation pursued for the pur ...

136 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA On the other hand, an in-depth interview is not just like an everyday conversation. To begin w ...

TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS 137 research “deep” is immersion in, and pursuit of, this dialogue. While in the fiel ...

138 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA Research methods are expressive acts. The ways we approach the people we study convey messages ...

TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS 139 The limitations of in-depth interviews are most often discussed in relation to th ...

140 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA interviews are one-on-one conversations with a researcher, the researcher’s identity and self- ...

TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS 141 recipient. Such a shift would be important, but it would not signify the removal ...

142 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA I did ask questions, of course, but these were not questions I brought with me from the outsid ...

TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS 143 own tales. They were not only the central focus of their narratives; they were th ...

144 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA Their claim may be a bit overstated. In my ethnographic work at the family shelter, for ex- am ...

TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS 145 The other side of this coin is that each of us is limited in the emotional stress ...

146 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA can pose a threat to good research. I think strong emotions pose a problem in three general ty ...

TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS 147 not define a set of fixed, non-overlapping “classical categories.” Rather, they a ...

148 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA same topic, trying out different conceptual lenses on the same set of observations to see how ...

TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS 149 its interpersonal (and ethical) sense of how we relate to the people we encounter ...

150 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA 150 CHAPTER 7 ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING FREDERIC CHARLES SCHAFFER I have been interested ...

ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING 151 You are weaving a thatched roof for your hut. Here you can do it all out in the field. You pl ...

152 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA Our foreign anthropologist, in learning English, might capture the sense of “inadvert- ence” a ...