Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

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438 INDEX


P

Pachirat, Timothy, 368, xxii
Pader, Ellen, 120–21, 354, 365n11
Paley, Julia, 123–24
Palmer, Jacqueline, 334
paradigm, uses of, 25n27
paralanguage, 76, 366n19
Park, Robert, 65n5
Parsonian functionalism, rejection of, 59
Parsons, Talcott, 56–57
participant-listener, 321
participant-observation
advantages of, 140–41
and data analysis, 169–70
defined, 164–66
of discourse styles, 167–68
and ethnographic sensibility, 173–75
exploring ways of doing, 167
goals of, 163
and in-depth interviewing, 139–40, 142
and numerical data, 169
researcher’s example of, 162–63, 167, 168–69,
245–57, 355–56
sociocultural patterns in, 163
as tool for policy analysis, 171
visibility of subjects, 166
participants, in research
conceptions of, 143
conceptual frameworks used by, 128–29
construction of accounts of, 133–34
importance of interviewing, 138
reactions to researcher, 148n15
recovering agency of, 142–43
sense-making of, 132–33
peace movements, narratives on, 292–99
peer review, 106
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 74n7
Perestroika list, 88n46, 370, 393n17
Perpetual Peace, 220–21
phenomenology, 3, 9, 11–15
phronesis, 38–40
pluralism, 48n1, 147n4
pluralists, 304, 306, 307, 314–15
policy analysis, value-critical
See value-critical policy analysis
policy documents, and globalization, 181
Political Ideology, 135, 140
political protest
impact and success of, 190, 194–95
and interpretive research, 198–99
legal environment of, 190–91
objectives, significance of, 191–93
problems with researching, 188, 195–97
and sanctions, 193–94
types of, in India, 188–90, 200n6n7
political science, 54, 216–19
politics
defined as struggle for power, 42–43

politics (continued)
functionalist definition of, 45–47
high, 178–80
institutional definition of, 41
and methodology, 47–48
as pluralist concept, 43–45, 48n2
positivist approaches to, 48
Polity III Project, 219, 222, 227n1
Popper, Karl, 3–4, 32–34
popular culture, 121–22, 179–80
positivism
concept of, 29–31
critiques of, 31–32
vs. interpretivism, 380–81, 387
limitations of, 28–29
origins of, 8–9, 24n8, 48n1
similarities to critical rationalism, 33
in the twentieth century, 55
post-Parsonian period, 57–58
poststructuralists, and interpretivists, 375–76, 379n2
power, and built spaces, 359, 362
pragmatism (pragmaticism), 24n4
presuppositionist theory, 34–41, 48n3
Principles of Sociology, 55
protest
See political protest
proxemics, 360–61
Putnam, Robert, 218

Q

qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), 66n14
qualitative-interpretive research, 93, 110n6
quants vs. quals, xviii
quota sampling strategy, 159

R

Ragin, Charles, 81–82
rational choice theory, 59–60
Raw and the Cooked, The, xxvin18
readers, reading
reader-response theory, 20, 26n29
and research
of government documents, 123
of historical texts, 223–24
widening sources for, 121–23
role in meaning making, 21
realities, social, 12, 13
reconstruction, 243n34
reflexivity
acknowledging, 294
and agency, 268–69
of anthropologists, 246
as core interpretive term, 102, 103
defined, 221
and ethnography, 260, 279n12
exploring silences, 123
and fieldwork, 246
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