Rongo Univesity Library

Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-428) and index.

Thinking interpretively : philosophical presuppositions and the human sciences / Dvora Yanow -- Contending conceptions of science and politics : methodology and the Constitution of the political / Mary Hawkesworth -- Generalization in comparative and historical social science : the difference that interpretivism makes / Robert Adcock -- Neither rigorous nor objective? interroating criteria for knowledge claims in interpretive science / Dvora Yanow -- Judging quality : evaluative criteria and epistemic communities / Peregrine Schwartz-Shea -- Talking our way to meaningful explanations : a practice-centered view of interviewing for interpretive research / Joe Soss -- Ordinary language interviewing / Frederic Charles Schaffer -- Seeing with an ethnographic sensibility : explorations beneath the surface of public policies / Ellen Pader -- High politics and low data : globalization discourses and popular culture / Jutta Weldes -- The numeration of events : studying political protest in India / Dean E. McHenry, Jr -- Political science as history : a reflexive approach / Ido Oren -- Studying the careers of knowledge claims : applying science studies to legal studies / Pamela Brandwein -- Ethnography, identity, and the production of knowledge / Samer Shehata -- Making sense of making sense : configurational analysis and the double hermeneutic / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson -- How narratives explain / Mark Bevir -- Critical interpretation and interwar peace movements : challenging dominant narratives / Cecelia Lynch -- Value-critical policy analysis : the case of language policy in the United States / Ronald Schmidt, Sr. -- Stories for research / Steven Maynard-Moody and Michael Musheno -- Interpretive content analysis : stories and arguments in analytic documents / Clare Ginger -- How built spaces mean : a semiotics of space / Dvora Yanow -- We call it a grain of sand : the interpretive orientation and a human social science / Timothy Pachirat -- Doing social science in a humanistic manner / Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea.

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