Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

INDEX 439

reflexivity (continued)
and human science, 389
increasing use of, in writing, 17
and informant feedback/member checks, 104
and interpretive research, 6–7, 82–83
and interviewing, 118, 145–46
limits of, 242n19
necessity of, 4, 209–10
as negative case analysis aid, 108
of participant-observer, 393n22
and political science, 218–19
in social sciences, 369
and value-critical policy analysis, 311
Rein, Martin, 301–2
relational social constructionism, 280n15
Report of the Workshop on the Scientific
Foundations of Qualitative Research, 112n26
research plan, 318
researcher
collaboration among, 330
and collective sense making, 79
as comparative anchor, 77
discrepancies found by, 124
effect on national politics, 175n8
effects of presence, 260–61
emotions of, 149n22
examples of fieldwork by, 162–63, 167, 168–69,
245–57, 355–56
fieldwork thoughts of, 148n15
gender bias toward, 254–56
identity, effects on research of, 247–48, 257–58
identity of, in interview, 139–40
and interpretive research, 3
“losing oneself,” 77–78, 87n34
as outsider, 12, 75
position in study, 104–5
presence of, 4
presuppositions of, 23n3
a priori knowledge of, 12–13
reactions to, 248–51
reflexivity of, in writing, 17
religious bias toward, 255–57
role of, in knowledge claims, 3
and situational inclusion/exclusion, 206, 252–53,
257
status of, 249–51
and technology, 370
See also reflexivity
rhetorical topography, developing, 273
rigor
defined, 69, 85n13
of interpretive research, 68–72
misunderstanding of term, 84n5
and objectivity, 82
and precision of syntax, 72
in research, 3, 297
Ringer, Fritz, 280n21
Roberson, Debi, 10, xxvin14
Roe, Emery, 334–35

Rudolph, Susanne, 62

Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, 53

Rules of Sociological Method, 65n8

Russett, Bruce, 219, 222, 223

S

Sabatier, Paul, xxvn5

sampling, snowball, 77, 86n31

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, 24n12

Schaffer, Frederic, 118–20

Schatz, Edward, 261n1

schema theory, 147n6

Scheppele, Kim, 243n23

Schmidt, Ronald Sr., 207–8

Schumacher, Kurt, 265–66, 269, 273–74, 276–78

Schwandt, Thomas, xxvn12

Schwartz-Shea, Peregrine, 4, 376–77, 393n16

science

critical rationalist theories of, 32–34

human, 388–89

maturity of, 30

positivist theories of, 29–31

practice and history of, 8–9, 24n5–27

presuppositionist theories of, 34–41

respect for, 385

study of, 212n2, 230, 233–35

unity of, 30

scientific method, the, 70, 84n6

Scollon, Ron, 168–69

Scollon, Suzanne, 168–69

self, and group meaning making, 13–15, 22

semiology, defined by Foucault, 18

semiotics, 26n31, 365n4

Shaping the Political Arena, 64

shared meaning, skepticism about, 132

Shehata, Samer, 204, 205, 206

Singer, J. David, 219

singular causal analysis, 276

Skerry, Peter, 169

Skocpol, Theda, 52–53

Smith, Rogers, 230

snowball sampling, 77, 86n31

social class, in Egypt, 246, 253–54, 258–59

social construction, 14, 25n22

social science

history of, 6–7

methods and tools for, 6, 370

modes of doing, 368

quantitative/qualitative dichotomy, 380–81

Sociological Imagination, The, 378

Soja, Edward, 365n3

Soss, Joseph, 118, 392n9

space(s)

See built spaces

spatial relations, 209

speeches, and globalization, 181

Sprawl novels, 183

Stanley, Juulian, 108–9