Interpretive Research Design: Concepts and Processes (Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods)

Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Dvora Yanow

ISBN 10: 0415878071 / ISBN 13: 9780415878074

Editore: Routledge 2011-12-13, 2011

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• Titolo: Interpretive Research Design: Concepts and Processes (Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods)
• Editore: Routledge 2011-12-13
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415878071
• ISBN 13: 9780415878074
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training they receive. This book is an authoritative examination of the concepts and processes underlying the design of an interpretive research project. Such an approach to design starts with the recognition that researchers are inevitably embedded in the intersubjective social processes of the worlds they study.

In focusing on researchers’ theoretical, ontological, epistemological, and methods choices in designing research projects, Schwartz-Shea and Yanow set the stage for other volumes in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods. They also engage some very practical issues, such as ethics reviews and the structure of research proposals. This concise guide explores where research questions come from, criteria for evaluating research designs, how interpretive researchers engage with "world-making," context, systematicity and flexibility, reflexivity and positionality, and such contemporary issues as data archiving and the researcher’s body in the field.

Informazioni sull?autore

Peregrine Schwartz-Shea is Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah.

Dvora Yanow is Guest Professor in the Communication, Philosophy, and Technology sub-department, Faculty of Social Sciences, at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Together, they are co-editors of Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn. They also created the "Methods Café" at both the American Political Science Association and Western Political Science Association annual meetings and ran them for 12 years. Currently, they are researching Institutional Review Board (and other ethics review committee) policies and especially their relationships with field research.