Interpretation and Method

Acknowledgments; * Introduction; Part I. Meaning and Methodology; 1. Thinking Interpretively: Philosophical Presuppositions and the Human Sciences, Dvora Yanow; 2. Contending Conceptions of Science and Politics: Methodology and the Constitution of the Political, Mary Hawkesworth; 3. Generalization in Comparative and Historical Social Science: The Difference that Interpretivism Makes, Robert Adcock; 4. Neither Rigorous nor Objective? Interrogating Criteria for Knowledge Claims in Interpretive Science, Dvora Yanow; 5. Judging Quality: Evaluative Criteria and Epistemic Communities, Peregrine Schwartz-Shea; Part II. Accessing and Generating Data; 6. Talking Our Way to Meaningful Explanations: A Practice-centered View of Interviewing for Interpretive Research, Joe Soss; 7. Ordinary Language Interviewing, Frederic Charles Schaffer; 8. Seeing with an Ethnographic Sensibility: Explorations Beneath the Surface of Public Policies, Ellen Pader; 9. High Politics and Low Data: Globalization Discourses and Popular Culture, Jutta Weldes; 10. The Numeration of Events: Studying Political Protest in India, Dean E. McHenry, Jr.; Part III. Analyzing Data; 11. Political Science as History: A Reflexive Approach, Ido Oren; 12. Studying the Careers of Knowledge Claims: Applying Science Studies to Legal Studies, Pamela Brandwein; 13. Ethnography, Identity, and the Production of Knowledge, Samer Shehata; 14. Making Sense of Making Sense: Configurational Analysis and the Double Hermeneutic, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson; 15. How Narratives Explain, Mark Bevir; 16. Critical Interpretation and Interwar Peace Movements Challenging Dominant Narratives, Cecelia Lynch; 17. Value-critical Policy Analysis: The Case of Language Policy in the United States, Ronald Schmidt, Sr.; 18. Stories for Research, Steven Maynard-Moody and Michael Musheno; 19. Interpretive Content Analysis: Stories and Arguments in Analytic Documents, Clare Ginger; 20. How Built Spaces Mean: A Semiotics of Space, Dvora Yanow; Part IV. Re-recognizing Interpretive Methodologies in the Human Sciences; 21. We Call It a Grain of Sand: The Interpretive Orientation and a Human Social Science, Timothy Pachirat; 22. Thinking and Doing Social Science in a Humanistic Manner, Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea; References; * About the Editors and Contributors; * Index.