Interpretive Interactionism - Brossura

Denzin, Norman K.

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ISBN 10: 0761915141 ISBN 13: 9780761915140

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2001

Riassunto

Denzin weaves together ideas from different epistemologies and methodologies (ethnography, feminist thought, critical theory, symbolic interactionist theory, etc.) to create an internally coherent and warranted justification for a form of inquiry that makes the problematic world of human lived experience accessible to an audience interested not simply in private woes but public troubles. The discerning teacher and student will immediately recognize that all the ‘standard’ issues in qualitative methods books are covered here but not in cookbook fashion. Thus, the book is itself an persuasive argument for the impossibility of divorcing thinking from doing, theory from practice.Thomas A. Schwandt, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignIn the beginning of the twenty-first century, there is a pressing demand to show how the practices of critical, interpretive qualitative research can help change the world in positive ways---this book shows social science researchers how to do this: First, by listening to and recording the stories people tell one another. Second, by then supplementing these stories with open-ended, creative, active interviews. And, third, by the creation of thick descriptions, interpretations and performance texts generated out of these stories. In addition, Denzin shows readers how to situate an interpretive study in the ethnoscape of daily life, the specifics of how interpretation is done (including performance interpretation), and the existential nature of this research and how it is located in the late postmodern movement. The book concludes with a glossary of terms to help familiarize the reader with the language of interpretive interaction."This text should be required reading for anyone who is thinking about conducting an interview study. For an introduction to post-positivist sociological thinking, as manifested in a well-articulated, credible approach to conducting qualitative inquir

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L'autore:

Norman K. Denzin, Distinguished Emeritus Research Professor of Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of over 50 books and 200 professional articles and chapters. He is the past president of The Midwest Sociological Society and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is the founding president of the International Association of Qualitative Inquiry (2005–) and director of the International Center of Qualitative Inquiry (2005–). He is a past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, founding coeditor of Qualitative Inquiry, and founding editor of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, International Review of Qualitative Research, and Studies in Symbolic Interaction: A Research Annual.

Contenuti:

Preface
1. Interpretive Criteria in the Seventh Moment
Interpretive Criteria in the Seventh Moment
The Performance Turn
Experiences and Performances
Performing Montana
Conclusions
2. The Interpretive Point of View
Performing Racial Memories
Personal Biography
The Interpretive Heritage
Opening Up the World for Interpretation
What Is Interpretive Interactionism?
Interpretation and Science
History, Power, Emotion, and Knowledge
The Criteria of Interpretation
The Agenda
Conclusions
3. Securing Biographical Experience
Exemplars
Overview
Narrative's Moment
Selves, Narratives and Sacred Places
Interpreting and Biographical
Conclusions
4. The Interpretive Process The Steps to Interpretation
Framing the Research Question
Deconstruction
Capture
Bracketing
Construction
Contextualizing
Evaluating Interpretive Materials
Conclusions
5. Situating Interpretation
Time, History, and Mapping
Learning the Language and Its Meanings
Researcher as Newcomer and Knowing Subject
Conclusions
6. Thick Description
A Double Crisis
Thick Description as Performative Writing
Examples of Thick Description-as-Inscription
Thin Description-as-Inscription
Good and Bad Thick Description
Conclusions
7. Doing Interpretation
Exemplars of Interpretation
What Interpretation Does
Types of Interpretation and Exemplars
Performing and Representing Interpretation
Understanding
Conclusions
8. Conclusion: On Interpretive Interactionism
Interpretation
Biographical Experience
Reading and Writing Experience
Fiction and Interpretation
Interpretive Interactionism in the Postmodern Period
Glossary of Terms
References
Index

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• Editore: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0761915141
• ISBN 13: 9780761915140
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 208