Interpretation And Method: Empirical Research Methods And the Interpretive Turn

CONTENTS......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
MAKING METHODS EXPLICIT......Page 13
SO WHAT’S WRONG WITH “QUALITATIVE”?......Page 15
VARIETIES OF INTERPRETIVE ANALYTIC METHODS......Page 19
METHODS, METHODOLOGIES, AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS......Page 22
NOTES......Page 24
PART I MEANING AND METHODOLOGY......Page 31
CHAPTER 1 THINKING INTERPRETIVELY: PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES......Page 33
TRUTH CLAIMS: EVIDENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND THE CHARACTER OF SCIENCE......Page 36
UNDERSTANDING VERSTEHEN: INTERPRETIVE GROUNDING......Page 37
THE MEANING OF MEANING: PHENOMENOLOGY’S LIFEWORLD......Page 39
THE EXPRESSION OF MEANING: HERMENEUTICS AND ARTIFACTS......Page 43
PROCESSES OF MEANING MAKING......Page 45
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS......Page 49
NOTES......Page 51
CHAPTER 2 CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS Methodology and the Constitution of the Political......Page 55
CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE......Page 57
METHODOLOGY AND THE CONSTITUTION OF POLITICAL LIFE......Page 75
NOTES......Page 76
CHAPTER 3 GENERALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE The Difference That Interpretivism Makes......Page 78
BEFORE “COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS”......Page 80
COMPARISON, HISTORY, AND THE PURSUIT OF THE “GENERAL” IN POST-PARSONIAN SOCIAL SCIENCE......Page 85
CONCLUSION......Page 91
NOTES......Page 93
CHAPTER 4 NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? Interrogating Criteria for Knowledge Claims in Interpretive Science......Page 95
PARSING RIGOR AND OBJECTIVITY......Page 96
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS: RHETORICAL USES OF ARGUMENTATION......Page 109
NOTES......Page 112
CHAPTER 5 JUDGING QUALITY Evaluative Criteria and Epistemic Communities......Page 117
UNDERSTANDING THE INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH GESTALT......Page 120
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE “CRITERIA LITERATURE”: CLASSIC TEXTS......Page 121
CRITERIA: AN EVOLVING DEBATE......Page 122
AN INDUCTIVE APPROACH TO A SET OF CRITERIA......Page 128
BUT WHAT ABOUT CAUSALITY AND GENERALIZABILITY?......Page 136
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS: EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES AND JUDGMENT......Page 137
NOTES......Page 138
PART II ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA......Page 143
CHAPTER 6 TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS A Practice-Centered View of Interviewing for Interpretive Research......Page 155
SO, WHAT MAKES INTERVIEW RESEARCH INTERPRETIVE?......Page 158
SO, WHAT IS AN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW AND WHAT MAKES IT IN DEPTH?......Page 162
IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS FOR INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH......Page 166
CONCLUSION: ON EMOTION AND THE IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW......Page 171
NOTES......Page 174
CHAPTER 7 ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING......Page 178
WHAT IS ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING?......Page 179
WHAT CAN BE LEARNED THROUGH ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING?......Page 181
HOW DOES ONE CONDUCT AN ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEW?......Page 182
CONCLUSION......Page 186
NOTES......Page 188
CHAPTER 8 SEEING WITH AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY Explorations Beneath the Surface of Public Policies......Page 189
PARTICIPANT-OBSERVATION: WE ALL DO IT, BUT SOME OF US TAKE NOTES AND LOOK FOR PATTERNS......Page 192
MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE......Page 194
ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY AND POLICY ANALYSIS......Page 198
CULTIVATING AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY......Page 200
NOTES......Page 203
CHAPTER 9 HIGH POLITICS AND LOW DATA Globalization Discourses and Popular Culture......Page 204
HIGH POLITICS VERSUS LOW DATA......Page 205
A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK......Page 206
VARIETIES OF TEXTUAL EVIDENCE......Page 209
NOTES......Page 213
CHAPTER 10 THE NUMERATION OF EVENTS Studying Political Protest in India......Page 215
THE CONCEPT OF DOMESTIC PROTEST AND ITS NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION......Page 216
THE CONCEPT OF PROTEST AND THE INTERPRETIVE ALTERNATIVE......Page 226
NOTES......Page 227
PART III ANALYZING DATA......Page 231
CHAPTER 11 POLITICAL SCIENCE AS HISTORY: A REFLEXIVE APPROACH......Page 243
THE USES OF HISTORY IN DEMOCRATIC PEACE RESEARCH......Page 247
A REFLEXIVE CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PEACE......Page 249
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS......Page 254
NOTES......Page 255
CHAPTER 12 STUDYING THE CAREERS OF KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS Applying Science Studies to Legal Studies......Page 256
FRAME ANALYSIS......Page 259
SCIENCE STUDIES......Page 261
TWO APPLICATIONS......Page 263
NOTES......Page 269
CHAPTER 13 ETHNOGRAPHY, IDENTITY, AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE......Page 272
EGYPTIAN-AMERICAN......Page 275
RESEARCHER......Page 276
CLASS......Page 281
GENDER......Page 282
RELIGION......Page 283
CONCLUSION: PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THEORETICAL INSIGHT......Page 285
NOTES......Page 289
CHAPTER 14 MAKING SENSE OF MAKING SENSE Configurational Analysis and the Double Hermeneutic......Page 292
AGENCY AND THE DOUBLE HERMENEUTIC......Page 295
SINGLE HERMENEUTICS......Page 297
LEGITIMATION: PRESERVING THE DOUBLE HERMENEUTIC......Page 298
IMPLEMENTING THE PROGRAM: MOMENTS AND MECHANISMS......Page 299
CONCLUSION......Page 306
NOTES......Page 307
CHAPTER 15 HOW NARRATIVES EXPLAIN......Page 309
PHILOSOPHY AND METHOD......Page 311
NARRATIVE EXPLANATIONS......Page 313
TRADITIONS AND DILEMMAS......Page 315
EPISTEMIC VALIDITY......Page 317
NOTES......Page 318
CHAPTER 16 CRITICAL INTERPRETATION AND INTERWAR PEACE MOVEMENTS Challenging Dominant Narratives......Page 319
IDENTIFY DOMINANT INTERPRETATIONS......Page 322
COLLECT PRIMARY EVIDENCE......Page 323
DEVISE A METHOD OF SELECTION WHEN SOURCES ARE TOO NUMEROUS......Page 324
RESEARCH THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF EVIDENCE ACCUMULATION......Page 325
BE SELF-REFLEXIVE ABOUT ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS......Page 326
CHAPTER 17 VALUE-CRITICAL POLICY ANALYSIS The Case of Language Policy in the United States......Page 328
VALUE-CRITICAL ANALYSIS: A STEP-BY-STEP ARTICULATION......Page 330
NOTES......Page 343
CHAPTER 18 STORIES FOR RESEARCH......Page 344
NARRATIVE FIELD RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY......Page 347
STORIES AND OTHER TEXTS......Page 348
STORIES FOR RESEARCH......Page 349
STORY COLLECTION......Page 352
STORY ANALYSIS......Page 354
ONE STORY OF MANY......Page 355
CITIZEN-AGENT NARRATIVE......Page 356
THOUGHTS ON DISCOVERY, COLLABORATION, AND INCONCLUSIVENESS......Page 357
NOTES......Page 358
CHAPTER 19 INTERPRETIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS Stories and Arguments in Analytical Documents......Page 359
POLICY CONTEXT FOR THE BLM WILDERNESS EISS......Page 360
DEFINING TERMS: CONTENT ANALYSIS, STORIES, AND ARGUMENTS......Page 362
FROM STATISTICAL TO INTERPRETIVE ANALYSES......Page 363
EISS, SENSE MAKING, AND INTERPRETIVE ANALYSIS......Page 364
SUMMARIZING QUESTIONS IN AN INTERPRETIVE APPROACH TO TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS......Page 374
NOTES......Page 376
CHAPTER 20 HOW BUILT SPACES MEAN A Semiotics of Space......Page 377
STUDYING BUILT SPACES......Page 380
ACCESSING SPACE DATA......Page 381
ANALYZING SPACE DATA: SPACE AS NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION......Page 384
MAKING SENSE OF SPACES......Page 389
NOTES......Page 392
PART IV RE-RECOGNIZING INTERPRETIVE METHODOLOGIES IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES......Page 395
CHAPTER 21 WE CALL IT A GRAIN OF SAND The Interpretive Orientation and a Human Social Science......Page 401
NOTES......Page 406
CHAPTER 22 DOING SOCIAL SCIENCE IN A HUMANISTIC MANNER......Page 408
PERSPECTIVES FROM THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE PROFESSIONS AND SCIENCE STUDIES......Page 409
ARE THERE, INDEED, INTERPRETIVE “METHODS”? DEBATES WITHIN INTERPRETIVE EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES......Page 412
WHAT IS AT STAKE? KNOWLEDGE MAKING AND POLITICS......Page 415
RECLAIMING HUMAN SCIENCE......Page 417
A RE-TURN TO HUMANISM......Page 418
NOTES......Page 420
REFERENCES......Page 423
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS......Page 457
INDEX......Page 461