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Handbook of Interpretive Research Methods in the Social Sciences

Edited by Margarethe Kusenbach and Michaela Pfadenhauer

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Abstract: This comprehensive Handbook provides interdisciplinary coverage of qualitative inquiry and interpretive 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.

Keywords: Qualitative Inquiry; Research Methods; Interpretivism; Social Constructionism; Sociology Of Knowledge; International Discourse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803926384
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Interpretive encounters: an introduction to the handbook Downloads
Margarethe Kusenbach and Michaela Pfadenhauer
Ch 2 Hidden figures? The role of women in early interpretive research in the United States and the German Empire Downloads
Ursula Offenberger and Marion Keller
Ch 3 Symbolic interactionism as resistance to positivism: an interpretive theory of understanding meaning and meaning-making Downloads
Foroogh Mohammadi and Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott
Ch 4 The purpose and place of interpretive approaches in education research Downloads
Sofia Marques da Silva
Ch 5 Looking (back) to the future of interpretive criminology Downloads
Julien Grayer and Stacey Hannem
Ch 6 Taking stock of interpretive scholarship in evidence-based public health Downloads
Lisa M. Pfadenhauer and Michaela Coenen
Ch 7 Interpreting disability: epistemological insights and methodological strategies Downloads
Jacqueline Low
Ch 8 How real are social constructions? Interpretive scholarship in disaster studies Downloads
Margarethe Kusenbach and Gabriela Christmann
Ch 9 Understanding interpretive research in communication Downloads
Jillian A. Tullis
Ch 10 Interpretation as intervention in science and technology studies: revisiting methods as epistemic practices Downloads
Fredy Mora-Gámez, Andrea Schikowitz and Sarah R. Davies
Ch 11 Women’s, gender, and feminist studies in transnational perspective: what we can and cannot learn when using an interpretive lens Downloads
Olga Plakhotnik
Ch 12 What can interpretive research methods do for trans studies? Connecting subjectivity and materiality Downloads
Hayden J. Fulton and S. L. Crawley
Ch 13 Interpreting and theorizing research interviews Downloads
Kathryn Roulston and Melissa Freeman
Ch 14 Sociological biographical research in the interpretive tradition Downloads
Miriam Schäfer and Johannes Becker
Ch 15 Cultural narrative analysis as an interpretive research method Downloads
Donileen R. Loseke and Carley Geiss
Ch 16 Hermeneutics as a method of interpretation: line by line to the reconstruction of meaning Downloads
Cornelia Reiter and Karin Sardadvar
Ch 17 How interpretive is grounded theory? Downloads
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
Ch 18 Phenomenology as inspiration in interpretive ethnographic research Downloads
Margarethe Kusenbach and Dirk vom Lehn
Ch 19 Interpretive research with vignettes: an innovative method for situational analysis Downloads
Katharina Miko-Schefzig
Ch 20 Artifact analysis as an interpretive method Downloads
Ulrike Froschauer and Manfred Lueger
Ch 21 From qualitative visual analysis to social science films Downloads
Katharina Miko-Schefzig and Dennis Jancsary
Ch 22 Whose interpretations matter? Participatory research approaches Downloads
Hella von Unger
Ch 23 Autoethnography as an interpretive method: reconnecting selves and society Downloads
Carol Rambo and Brittany Presson
Ch 24 Feeling knowing: the nature and purpose of arts-based research methods Downloads
Sophie Tamas
Ch 25 The influence of new media technologies on contemporary interpretive research Downloads
Julie B. Wiest, Laura Robinson and Katia Moles
Ch 26 Interpretive research methods and the issue of intersubjectivity in interactionism and affect theory Downloads
Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Javiera Garcia-Meneses
Ch 27 Interpretive research from a multispecies perspective Downloads
Leslie Irvine
Ch 28 What makes a great ethnography? Writing and the issue of quality in interpretive research Downloads
Michaela Pfadenhauer and Paul Eisewicht
Ch 29 Doing it right? Interpretive research in an era of research ethics review Downloads
Deborah K. van den Hoonaard
Ch 30 Dorothy Smith: making the ontological shift Downloads
Órla Meadhbh Murray
Ch 31 Reconstructive social research in the interpretive tradition: an interview with Monika Wohlrab-Sahr Downloads
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, Michaela Pfadenhauer and Silke Steets
Ch 32 Reflections on urban ethnography: an interview with Elijah Anderson Downloads
Elijah Anderson, Patrice D. Collins, Vida Bajc and Margarethe Kusenbach
Ch 33 Interpreting society from a spatial perspective: Martina Löw's groundbreaking sociology of space Downloads
Séverine Marguin and Vivien Sommer
Ch 34 Interpretation, emotions, and intersectionality: exploring and extending Arlie Hochschild's legacy Downloads
Anna Durnová and Julia Schmid
Ch 35 From the interpretation of culture to the culture of interpretation: Hans-Georg Soeffner's art of sociological hermeneutics Downloads
Thea D. Boldt
Ch 36 Living autoethnography with Carolyn Ellis: honoring care and compassion in the academy Downloads
Carolyn Ellis, S. L. Crawley and Margarethe Kusenbach

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