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 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.

Author: Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Dvora Yanow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/13/2011
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780415878081

About the Author

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.