ABSTRACT
Exceptionally 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|146 pages
Meaning and Methodology
chapter 2|23 pages
Contending Conceptions of Science and Politics
Methodology and the Constitution of the Political
chapter 5|17 pages
Generalization in Comparative and Historical Social Science
The Difference That Interpretivism Makes
chapter 6|23 pages
Neither Rigorous nor Objective?
Interrogating Criteria for Knowledge Claims in Interpretive Science
part II|14 pages
Generating Data
chapter 8|22 pages
Talking Our Way to Meaningful Explanations
A Practice-Centered View of Interviewing for Interpretive Research
chapter 10|15 pages
Seeing with an Ethnographic Sensibility
Explorations Beneath the Surface of Public Policies
part III|12 pages
Analyzing Data
chapter 16|9 pages
Critical Interpretation and Interwar Peace Movements
Challenging Dominant Narratives
chapter 20|15 pages
Don’t Judge a Cartoon by Its Image
Interpretive Approaches to the Study of Political Cartoons
chapter 22|19 pages
On Not Just Finding What You (Thought You) Were Looking for
Reflections on Fieldwork Data and Theory
chapter 23|15 pages
“May I See Your Color-Coded Badge?”
Reflections on Research with “Vulnerable” Communities
part IV|27 pages
Re-Recognizing the Human Sciences Through Interpretive Methodologies
chapter 24|7 pages
We Call It a Grain of Sand
The Interpretive Orientation and a Human Social Science
