Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

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440 INDEX


Star, Susan Leigh, 233
Star Trek, 183
State, The, 51, 54
State-Agent Narrative, 320, 329
statistical analysis, 79, 112n28, 335–36
statisticians, and modelers, xxvin19
Stein, Sandra, 354
Stone, Lawrence, 285
story sketchbook, 325
story-based research, collection and analysis,
324–27
storytelling, 320–23, 329–30
Street-Level Bureaucracy, 319
subjectivity, 73, 79, 86n28, 279n7
suicide, as protest, 190
Supreme Court, and the legal academy, 230
Swaffield, Simon, 231, 234
Szymborska, Wislawa, 374–75

T

tactile behavior, 366n19
talking
See interview(ing)
Tamil Nadu Essential Services Maintenance Act
2002 (TEMSA), 190–91
Tauxe, Caroline, 168
Taylor, Charles, 133, 153, 224
television, and globalization, 183
Theories of the Policy Process, xxvn5
thick description
characterized by Geertz, 23n1
in field research, 319
and interview methods, 136
as scientific standard, 101, 102
understandings of, 111n14
Tilly, Charles, 62, 64
traditions, in narratives, 287–88
transcription, 136, 142, 208
transparency, 106–7
triangulation, 102, 103, 111n16
trustworthiness, 101–2, 102–3, 111n8
Turkle, Sherry, 391

U

understanding
See verstehen

Unobtrusive (Nonreactive) Measures, 126n5
Unwanted Claims, 130, 131, 134, 142
up, concept of, 359, 366n15

V

validity, of research, 11n9n10
value-committed policy analysis, 301, 309
value-critical policy analysis, 301–14
value-neutral policy analysis, 301, 309
Verba, Sidney, xxvn10n11, xvii
verification criterion of meaning, 30, 32, 37
verstehen
as concept of study, 9
defined, 24n15
Gadamer on, 16
and participant-observation, 206
and subjective sense making, 10–11, 24n11
Vienna Circle, 9, 24n8
“View with a Grain of Sand,” 374–75
vocabulary, for interpretive research, 377

W

Webb, Eugene, 74, 126n5
Weber, Max, 56, 268, 273, 275–76, 278
Weldes, Jutta, 122–23, 126n5
Western civilization, 274–75, 277, 278
White, Hayden, 289, 321
Wilson, Woodrow
on comparative politics, 51
on the Democratic Peace, 223
on German political system, 225–26
and John W. Burgess, 223–25
racism of, 224
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 119, 151–52, 159
Woolgar, Steve, 242n15
word meanings, 151–53
worldmaking, 3, 16–17
writing
business, and globalization, 181
differences in, 212n3
interpretive, quality of, 72
role of, in worldmaking, 3, 16–17

Y

Yanow, Dvora, 3, 4, 204, 209, 232, 377
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