Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive TurnExceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography. Reflecting on their own research experiences, the contributors offer an inside, applied perspective on how research topics, evidence, and methods intertwine to produce knowledge in the social sciences. |
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| 1973 | |
Contending Conceptions of Science and Politics | 1971 |
Figuring Authority Authorizing Statistics | |
Working with Concepts | |
Generalization in Comparative and Historical Social Science | |
Neither Rigorous nor Objective? | |
Judging Quality | |
Studying the Careers of Knowledge Claims | |
Critical Interpretation and Interwar Peace Movements | |
Political Science as History | |
ValueCritical Policy Analysis | |
Stories for Research | |
Dont Judge a Cartoon by Its Image | |
How Built Spaces Mean | |
On Not Just Finding What You Thought You Were Looking | |
A PracticeCentered View of Interviewing for Interpretive Research | |
Ordinary Language Interviewing | |
Seeing with an Ethnographic Sensibility | |
Ethnography Identity and the Production of Knowledge | |
High Politics and Low Data | |
The Numeration of Events | |
Analyzing Data | |
Making Sense of Making Sense | |
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