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This comprehensive Handbook provides interdisciplinary coverage of qualitative inquiry and interpretative research methods in the social sciences. Margarethe Kusenbach and Michaela Pfadenhauer adopt an innovative approach by connecting research practice with conceptual principles and strong theoretical grounding.
Interpretivism is one of the major theoretical frameworks in contemporary social science. In this Handbook, leading experts discuss a range of interpretive research methods and issues, emphasizing the importance of theorizing and self-reflection in qualitative research. Featuring novel and diverse voices in methodological discourse, the Handbook fosters dialogue and showcases various strands, styles, and techniques of interpretive inquiry. The contributing authors examine the history and contexts of interpretive research in various social science disciplines, such as education, criminology, public health, and gender studies. Chapters also explore challenges facing interpretive researchers, such as ethics, writing, and new media and technologies. Moreover, the Handbook portrays the notable contributions of seven outstanding interpretive scholars from different regions.
The Handbook of Interpretive Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a valuable resource for students and academics across the social sciences. It is of particular interest to educators in sociology, science and technology studies, communication, and other fields where researchers are looking for innovative ideas to expand their knowledge base and invigorate their teaching.
Contents
Contents
1 Interpretive encounters: an introduction to the handbook 1
Margarethe Kusenbach and Michaela Pfadenhauer
PART I CONTEXTS
2 Hidden figures? The role of women in early interpretive research in the
United States and the German Empire 21
Ursula Offenberger and Marion Keller
3 Symbolic interactionism as resistance to positivism: an interpretive theory
of understanding meaning and meaning-making 36
Foroogh Mohammadi and Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott
PART II FIELDS
4 The purpose and place of interpretive approaches in education research 54
Sofia Marques da Silva
5 Looking (back) to the future of interpretive criminology 72
Julien Grayer andStacey Hannem
6 Taking stock of interpretive scholarship in evidence-based public health 89
Lisa M. PfadenhauerandMichaela Coenen
7 Interpreting disability: epistemological insights and methodological
strategies 107
Jacqueline Low
8 How real are social constructions? Interpretive scholarship in disaster
studies 123
Margarethe Kusenbach and Gabriela Christmann
9 Understanding interpretive research in communication 137
Jillian A. Tullis
10 Interpretation as intervention in science and technology studies: revisiting
methods as epistemic practices 152
Fredy Mora-Gámez, Andrea Schikowitz, and Sarah R. Davies
11 Women's, gender, and feminist studies in transnational perspective: what
we can and cannot learn when using an interpretive lens 165
Olga Plakhotnik
12 What can interpretive research methods do for trans studies? Connecting
subjectivity and materiality 181
Hayden J. Fulton and S.L. Crawley
PART III METHODS
13 Interpreting and theorizing research interviews 198
Kathryn Roulston and Melissa Freeman
14 Sociological biographical research in the interpretive tradition 210
Miriam Schäfer and Johannes Becker
15 Cultural narrative analysis as an interpretive research method 225
Donileen R. Loseke and Carley Geiss
16 Hermeneutics as a method of interpretation: line by line to the
reconstruction of meaning 241
Cornelia Reiter and Karin Sardadvar
17 How interpretive is grounded theory? 258
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
18 Phenomenology as inspiration in interpretive ethnographic research 271
Margarethe Kusenbach and Dirk vom Lehn
19 Interpretive research with vignettes: an innovative method for situational
analysis 288
Katharina Miko-Schefzig
20 Artifact analysis as an interpretive method 307
Ulrike Froschauer and Manfred Lueger
21 From qualitative visual analysis to social science films 322
Katharina Miko-Schefzig and Dennis Jancsary
22 Whose interpretations matter? Participatory research approaches 342
Hella von Unger
23 Autoethnography as an interpretive method: reconnecting selves and
society 358
Carol Rambo and Brittany Presson
24 Feeling knowing: the nature and purpose of arts-based research methods 374
Sophie Tamas
PART IV ISSUES
25 The influence of new media technologies on contemporary interpretive
research 388
Julie B. Wiest, Laura Robinson, and Katia Moles
26 Interpretive research methods and the issue of intersubjectivity in
interactionism and affect theory 406
Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Javiera Garcia-Meneses
27 Interpretive research from a multispecies perspective 422
Leslie Irvine
28 What makes a great ethnography? Writing and the issue of quality in
interpretive research 436
Michaela Pfadenhauer and Paul Eisewicht
29 Doing it right? Interpretive research in an era of research ethics review 454
Deborah K. van den Hoonaard
PART V EXEMPLARS
30 Dorothy Smith: making the ontological shift 469
Órla Meadhbh Murray
31 Reconstructive social research in the interpretive tradition: an interview
with Monika Wohlrab-Sahr 485
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, Michaela Pfadenhauer, andSilke Steets
32 Reflections on urban ethnography: an interview with Elijah Anderson 498
Elijah Anderson, Patrice D. Collins, Vida Bajc, and Margarethe Kusenbach
33 Interpreting society from a spatial perspective: Martina Löw's
groundbreaking sociology of space 509
Séverine Marguin and Vivien Sommer
34 Interpretation, emotions, and intersectionality: exploring and extending
Arlie Hochschild's legacy 524
Anna Durnová and Julia Schmid
35 From the interpretation of culture to the culture of interpretation: Hans-
Georg Soeffner's art of sociological hermeneutics 535
Thea D. Boldt
36 Living autoethnography with Carolyn Ellis: honoring care and compassion
in the academy 548
Carolyn Ellis, S. L. Crawley, and Margarethe Kusenbach
