Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

INDEX 437

legitimation, and the double hermeneutic, 270–72
Levi-Strauss, Claude, xxvin18
Lieber, Francis, 216–17, 220
Liebow, Elliott, 141–42
lifeworld, 12, 25n18
Lin, Ann, 141
Lincoln, Yvonna, 93–95, 105–6, 108
Linder, Steven, 231
Lipsky, Michael, 87n36, 319
Luft, Joseph, 354
Luker, Kristen, 208
Lynch, Cecelia, 204, 207, 369

M

magazines, and globalization, 181–82
Mahoney, James, 53
Majone, Giandomenico, 334–35
Making Democracy Work, 218
mathematics, and interpretivism, 387–88
Matthew, Henry, 285, 286
Maynard-Moody, Steven, 203, 208, 209
McClure, Kirstie, 125
McHenry, Dean, 124, 125, 205, 385
McNabb, Steve, 170
meaning making, human
and artifacts, 17–19
and built spaces, 353
contextualization of, 13, 112n20
by corporate entities, 18
and data analysis, 206–7
as goal of interpretive research, 92
in a group, 13–15
and hermeneutic circularity, 15–17
and interpretivism, 23, 374–75
and interview methods, 139
in the lifeworld, 12
observation of word-deed tension, 18
perception of, 368
practices for investigating, 3
and understanding, 11
See also intersubjectivity
measuring and counting, 79, 87n37
Merton, Robert, 329
Merttens, Ruth, 80
methodology
challenging, 29
debate on interpretive, 384–86
defined, 28
and meaning, 3–114
need for diversity in, 387–90
qualitative, xv–xix
Miles, Matthew, 93–94, 107
Mills, C. Wright, 134, 378
Mink, Louis, 289
Mitchell, Timothy, 122
modelers, and statisticians, xxvin19
modernist epistemology, 58–60, 66n13
modernization/democratization theory, 47

Monroe, Kristen, 135

Mosca, Gaetano, 42

Murdock, George, 65n9

Musheno, Michael, 203, 208, 209

N

narrative policy analysis, 334–35

narratives

and built space analysis, 363

checking accuracy of, 310

choosing sources for, 296–97

Citizen-Agent Narrative, 320, 327–29

conditional and volitional connections of,

286–87

dominant (meta) narratives, 293

epistemic validity of, 288–89

and evidence accumulation, 297–98

as explanations, 285–87

field research in, 319–20

forms of, 348n5

on peace movements, 292–99

reflexivity in analyzing, 298–99

State-Agent Narrative, 319–20, 329

traditions and dilemmas of, 287–89

used in interpretive research, 283–85

National Science Foundation, 112n26

negative case analysis, 107–8, 112n24

neopositivism, 269

New Historical Institutionalism (NHI), 230,

241n9

newspapers, and globalization, 182

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 280n17

non-verbal communication, 139, 352, 356–58,

366n19

novels, 121–22, 180–81, 182–83

O

objectivity

definitional evidence for, 73–74, 87n38

impossibility of, 81–82

of interpretive research, 72–81, 293

medical definition of, 86n28

philosophical critique of, 75–76

procedural defense of, 76–81

and rigor, 82

and subjectivity, 73, 76, 279n7

surface appearance of, 279n4

observation

combined with interviewing, 120–21

and positivist methods, 30, 31–32

in research, 74, 85n18

Oneal, John, 219, 222

Order of Things, The, 224, 375–76

ordinary language interviewing, 151–60

See also interview(ing)

Oren, Ido, 204, 205, xxii

Ortner, Sherry, 120–21