Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

434 INDEX

Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis

Software (CAQDAS), 212

conceptualization, 268

concrete practical rationality, 131

connections, conditional, 286

connections, volitional, 287

construction, of participants’ accounts, 133–34

constructivism, 210

convergence, 56

Cops, Teachers, and Counselors: Stories from the

Front Lines of Public Service, 317

Correlates of War (COW), 217, 219, 227n2

counting and measuring, 79, 87n37

critical rationalism, 3–4, 32–34

critical thinking skills, 315n2

Crosskey, William, 229, 236–38

Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive, 124, 188–89

cross-societal inquiry, 54–57

culture, popular, 179–80

culture shock, 25n18

D

Damasio, Antonio, 81

data

access to, xxvn9, 115–202, 353–56

See also interview(ing); observation;

participant-observation; readers, reading

analysis of, 206–9

brute, 198, 226

coding, 93, 199n2, 326, 334

of Correlates of War (COW), 217, 219, 227n2

defined, xxvin17

gathering methods for, 173

high, 178, 181–82, 185

in interpretive research, 92–93

low, 178, 182–85

in word form, 334, xix

decor, 361

democracy, defined, 222

democratic peace, the, 219–27

Descent of Political Theory: The, 65n1

developmental historicism, 54

dilemmas, in narratives, 288–89

Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, xxvin15

Dosse, Francois, xxvn12

Doyle, Michael, 220–21

dress code, 361

Durkheim, Emile, 65n8

E

Eliasoph, Nina, 148n19

e-mail, and globalization, 184

emic-etic concepts, 20, 26n35, 147n8

emotivism, 44–45

empiricism, 29, 48n1

environmental impact statements (EISs), 332–48

epistemic communities, 91

Ethnographic Evaluation of the 1990 U.S. Decennial

Census Reports, 169, 175n6

ethnographic sensibility

advantages, for research, 163

cultivating, 172–75

and local knowledge, 391

and policy analysis, 170–72

of political scientists, 245

researcher’s example of, 162–63, 168–69, 245–57

ethnography, as analytic method, 205, 245, 260–61,

261n1

evidence, primary and secondary, 295–96

evolutionary positivism, 54–55

Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for

Research, 108

explanation, as scientific method, 10

F

fact-value dichotomy, 3–4, 76

Fairman, Charles, 229, 236–38, 242n21

falsification, 32–33, 36, 49n4, 160

family, nuclear, 285

fasting, as protest, 189–90, 200n9n10

Father of the Bride II, 183

fieldwork

background of, 148n15

problems of, 261n4

realities of, 317–18

and reflexivity, 246

researcher’s example of, 162–63, 167, 168–69,

245–57, 262–63, 327–28, 355–56

film, and globalization, 183

Fish, Stanley, 235, 242n19

folk psychology, 285, 290

Foucault, Michel, 18, 26n31, 224, 375–76

Foundation novels, 180–81, 182–83

1491 problem, the, 16

Fourteenth Amendment debate, 229, 236–38, 243n33

frame analysis

action and purpose in, 232–33

analytic distinctions in, 231–32

changes in, 335

characteristics of, 232

competing, 234–35

and data analysis, 241

defined, 205, 231

links to interpretive communities, 234

and science studies, 233–35

Francisco, Ronald, 199n2

Frankfurt School theory, 7, 22

Frantz, Laurent, 238–40

Freeman, Edward, 53–54

fuzzy sets, 81–82

G

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 16

Galileo, 387–88