Interpretive Research Design Concepts and Processes
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 the...
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| Language: | English |
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United Kingdom
Routledge
2012
Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis Group |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods |
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| ISBN: | 9781136993831, 1136993835, 9780415878074, 0415878071, 9780415878081, 041587808X, 9780203854907, 9781136993787, 1136993789, 020385490X, 9781136993824, 1136993827 |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro -- INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH DESIGN Concepts and Processes -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Sketch of the Book -- 1 Wherefore Research Designs? -- Research Design: Why Is It Necessary? -- An Outline of a Research Proposal, Including the Research Design -- 2 Ways of Knowing: Research Questions and Logics of Inquiry -- Where Do Research Questions Come From? The Role of Prior Knowledge -- Where Do Research Questions Come From? Abductive Ways of Knowing -- Where Do Research Questions Come From? The Role of Theory and the "Literature Review" -- Do Concepts "Emerge from the Field"? More on Theory and Theorizing -- Where Do Research Questions Come From? Ontological and Epistemological Presuppositions in Interpretive Research -- A Short Bibliography of Key Sources in Interpretive Social Science -- 3 Starting from Meaning: Contextuality and Its Implications -- Contrasting Orientations toward Knowledge -- Contextuality and the Character of Concepts and Causality -- Concepts: Bottom-up In Situ Development -- But What of Hypothesizing? Constitutive Causality -- The Centrality of Context -- 4 The Rhythms of Interpretive Research I: Getting Going -- Access: Choices of Settings, Actors, Events, Archives, and Materials -- Power and Research Relationships -- Researcher Roles: Six Degrees of Participation -- Access, Researcher Roles, and Positionality -- Access and Archives -- Access versus Case Selection -- Design Flexibility: Control and Requisite Researcher Skills -- Control and Positivist Research Design -- The Logics of Control and Interpretive Research -- Interpretive Researcher Competence and Skill -- 5 The Rhythms of Interpretive Research II: Understanding and Generating Evidence -- The Character of Evidence: (Co-)Generated Data and "Truth" -- Forms of Evidence: Word-Data and Beyond
- Mapping for Exposure and Intertextuality -- Fieldnote Practices -- 6 Designing for Trustworthiness: Knowledge Claims and Evaluations of Interpretive Research -- Understanding the Limitations of Positivist Standards for Interpretive Research: Validity, Reliability, and Replicability -- The Problems of "Bias" and "Researcher Presence": "Objectivity" and Contrasting Methodological Responses -- Researcher Sense-Making in an Abductive Logic of Inquiry: Reflexivity and Other Checks for Designing Trustworthy Research -- Checking Researcher Sense-Making through Reflexivity -- Checking Researcher Sense-Making during Data Generation and Analysis -- Checking Researcher Sense-Making through "Member- Checking" -- Doubt, Trustworthiness, and Explanatory Coherence -- "Researcher Contamination" and "Bias" Revisited -- Summing Up -- 7 Design in Context: From the Human Side of Research to Writing Research Manuscripts -- The Body in the Field: Emotions, Sexuality, Wheelchairedness, and Other Human Realities -- Interpretive Research and Human Subjects Protections Review -- Data Archiving and Replicability -- Writing Research Designs and Manuscripts -- 8 Speaking across Epistemic Communities -- Designing for "Mixed Methods" Research -- Crossing the Boundaries of Epistemic Communities: Proposal Review and Epistemic Communities' Tacit Knowledge -- Practicing Interpretive Research: Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- References -- Index