Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

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interpretive research, researchers (continued)
judging, 91
and mathematics, 387–88
methodological stances of, 392n9
methods not included, 210–12
need for explicit methods statements, xiii–xv
need for recognition of, 381
need for writings on, 384
options of students in, 383, xxiii–xxiv
on peace movements, 292–99
philosophy and method of, 283–85
and positivism, 380–81
and poststructuralism, 375–76, 379n2
and quantitative/qualitative methods, 4
recognizing and using methodologies of, 382
and reflexive history, 205
rigor and objectivity in, 82
social science vs. humanities placement,
386
and storytelling, 320–21
strengths of, 22
terminology, first-order, 101–3, 111n16
terminology, second-order, 104–8, 112n24
textual forms of, 320–21
training for, lack of, 110n1
understanding research gestalt, 92–93
usefulness of, 390–91
vocabulary for, 377
interpretive social science, 60–65
intersubjectivity, 14–15, 78–79
intertextuality
across data genres, 123
defined, 16
in interpretive research, 80
and popular culture, 180
in spatial meanings, 361
and term use, 243n24
interview(ing)
avoiding preconceptions in, 119
cold calling, 126n1
dealing with resistance in, 123–24
excerpt from, 155–58
frameworks, used by participants, 128–29
in-depth
advantages for interpretive method,
137–38, 141–43
conducting, 144–46
defined, 135–36
emotion and, 143–44, 146
importance to participants, 138
limitations of, 139–40
and participant-observation, 138
as tool for data generation, 321
as interpretive research, 130–34
as relationship building, 116
talking, 117–19
See also ordinary language interviewing
Introduction to the Science of Sociology,
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Jackson, Patrick, xxvin13, 206, xxii
Jaggers, Keith, 219
Johari’s Window, 354
Jordan, Birgitte, 124–25
judgment, 91, 109–10, 154

K

Kant, Immanuel, 9–11, 15–16, 24n10, 220–21
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, xvii
Kantian peace (system, process), 221
Katz, Jack, 120
Keller, Albert, 65n9
Keohane, Robert, xxvn10n11, xv, xvii
Killingsworth, M. Jimmie, 334
kinesthesia, 355
King, Gary, xxvn10n11, xvii
knowledge
and politics, 370–71
positivist beliefs about, 30
a priori, 12–13
tacit
of built space, 350
defined, 13–14
documenting use of, 92
inability to articulate, 88n43
and sense-making, 81
types and dimensions of, 368–69
knowledge claims
and interpretive research, 3
investigating careers of
steps to take, 235
techniques for, 229–31
prior knowledge and, 10
producing, 204–6
science studies and, 233–35
success or failure of, 229
trustworthiness of, 235
Kondo, Dorinne, 390
Kuhn, Thomas, 78, 80, 85n20, 87n36

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Labov, William, 321
Laitin, David, 151–52
Lane, Robert, 135, 140
language
and meaning making, 18–19, 24n12
philosophy of, 151–53
policy issues of, 302, 303–15
Language Policy and Identity Policy in the
United States, 302
Latour, Bruno, 85n20
laws, universal, of science, 8–9
legal academy, and the Supreme Court, 230
legitimation, analysis of, 276, 279n5,
280n14
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