Handbook of Interpretive Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Edited by Margarethe Kusenbach and
Michaela Pfadenhauer
in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing
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

- 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

- Ursula Offenberger and Marion Keller
- Ch 3 Symbolic interactionism as resistance to positivism: an interpretive theory of understanding meaning and meaning-making

- Foroogh Mohammadi and Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott
- Ch 4 The purpose and place of interpretive approaches in education research

- Sofia Marques da Silva
- Ch 5 Looking (back) to the future of interpretive criminology

- Julien Grayer and Stacey Hannem
- Ch 6 Taking stock of interpretive scholarship in evidence-based public health

- Lisa M. Pfadenhauer and Michaela Coenen
- Ch 7 Interpreting disability: epistemological insights and methodological strategies

- Jacqueline Low
- Ch 8 How real are social constructions? Interpretive scholarship in disaster studies

- Margarethe Kusenbach and Gabriela Christmann
- Ch 9 Understanding interpretive research in communication

- Jillian A. Tullis
- Ch 10 Interpretation as intervention in science and technology studies: revisiting methods as epistemic practices

- 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

- Olga Plakhotnik
- Ch 12 What can interpretive research methods do for trans studies? Connecting subjectivity and materiality

- Hayden J. Fulton and S. L. Crawley
- Ch 13 Interpreting and theorizing research interviews

- Kathryn Roulston and Melissa Freeman
- Ch 14 Sociological biographical research in the interpretive tradition

- Miriam Schäfer and Johannes Becker
- Ch 15 Cultural narrative analysis as an interpretive research method

- Donileen R. Loseke and Carley Geiss
- Ch 16 Hermeneutics as a method of interpretation: line by line to the reconstruction of meaning

- Cornelia Reiter and Karin Sardadvar
- Ch 17 How interpretive is grounded theory?

- Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
- Ch 18 Phenomenology as inspiration in interpretive ethnographic research

- Margarethe Kusenbach and Dirk vom Lehn
- Ch 19 Interpretive research with vignettes: an innovative method for situational analysis

- Katharina Miko-Schefzig
- Ch 20 Artifact analysis as an interpretive method

- Ulrike Froschauer and Manfred Lueger
- Ch 21 From qualitative visual analysis to social science films

- Katharina Miko-Schefzig and Dennis Jancsary
- Ch 22 Whose interpretations matter? Participatory research approaches

- Hella von Unger
- Ch 23 Autoethnography as an interpretive method: reconnecting selves and society

- Carol Rambo and Brittany Presson
- Ch 24 Feeling knowing: the nature and purpose of arts-based research methods

- Sophie Tamas
- Ch 25 The influence of new media technologies on contemporary interpretive research

- Julie B. Wiest, Laura Robinson and Katia Moles
- Ch 26 Interpretive research methods and the issue of intersubjectivity in interactionism and affect theory

- Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Javiera Garcia-Meneses
- Ch 27 Interpretive research from a multispecies perspective

- Leslie Irvine
- Ch 28 What makes a great ethnography? Writing and the issue of quality in interpretive research

- Michaela Pfadenhauer and Paul Eisewicht
- Ch 29 Doing it right? Interpretive research in an era of research ethics review

- Deborah K. van den Hoonaard
- Ch 30 Dorothy Smith: making the ontological shift

- Órla Meadhbh Murray
- Ch 31 Reconstructive social research in the interpretive tradition: an interview with Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

- Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, Michaela Pfadenhauer and Silke Steets
- Ch 32 Reflections on urban ethnography: an interview with Elijah Anderson

- 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

- Séverine Marguin and Vivien Sommer
- Ch 34 Interpretation, emotions, and intersectionality: exploring and extending Arlie Hochschild's legacy

- 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

- Thea D. Boldt
- Ch 36 Living autoethnography with Carolyn Ellis: honoring care and compassion in the academy

- Carolyn Ellis, S. L. Crawley and Margarethe Kusenbach
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