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What Does The American Presidency Mean? - The Need For Interpretation In Presidency Studies

by Richard Holtzman

~~55,64€~~ 50,08€ 10% OFF

 What Does the American Presidency Mean? The Need for Interpretation in Presidency Studies makes a compelling case for how interpretivism contributes to our understanding of the American presidency. This brief book is accessible and inviting, regardless of a readerâ€™s background in presidency studies or interpretivism.
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What Does The American Presidency Mean? - The Need For Interpretation In Presidency Studies

by Richard Holtzman

~~55,64€~~ 50,08€ 10% OFF

 What Does the American Presidency Mean? The Need for Interpretation in Presidency Studies makes a compelling case for how interpretivism contributes to our understanding of the American presidency. This brief book is accessible and inviting, regardless of a readerâ€™s background in presidency studies or interpretivism.
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Understanding American Legislatures - The Need For Interpretive-Qualitative Research

by James M. Curry

~~50,34€~~ 45,31€ 10% OFF

 In this book, James M. Curry introduces legislative scholars to the value and importance of interpretive research. Understanding American Legislatures is a must-read contribution to the study of legislatures and our discourse about methods in American politics.
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Understanding American Legislatures - The Need For Interpretive-Qualitative Research

by James M. Curry

~~50,34€~~ 45,31€ 10% OFF

 In this book, James M. Curry introduces legislative scholars to the value and importance of interpretive research. Understanding American Legislatures is a must-read contribution to the study of legislatures and our discourse about methods in American politics.
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Researching Street-Level Bureaucracy - Bringing Out The Interpretive Dimensions

by Mike Rowe

~~51,66€~~ 46,49€ 10% OFF

 Using Michael Lipskyâ€™s idea of SLB and connecting it to contemporary debates, Mike Rowe argues for an approach to researching SLBs that focuses on dilemmas in practice. Researching Street-level Bureaucracy is an essential resource for teachers and students of Public Administration, Public Policy, Social Work, and Criminal Justice.
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What Does The American Presidency Mean? - The Need For Interpretation In Presidency Studies

by Richard Holtzman

~~196,02€~~ 176,42€ 10% OFF

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 What Does the American Presidency Mean? The Need for Interpretation in Presidency Studies makes a compelling case for how interpretivism contributes to our understanding of the American presidency. This brief book is accessible and inviting, regardless of a readerâ€™s background in presidency studies or interpretivism.
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Understanding American Legislatures - The Need For Interpretive-Qualitative Research

by James M. (University Of Utah, Usa) Curry

~~162,23€~~ 146,01€ 10% OFF

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 In this book, James M. Curry introduces legislative scholars to the value and importance of interpretive research. Understanding American Legislatures is a must-read contribution to the study of legislatures and our discourse about methods in American politics.
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Researching Street-Level Bureaucracy - Bringing Out The Interpretive Dimensions

by Mike Rowe

~~51,66€~~ 46,49€ 10% OFF

 Using Michael Lipskyâ€™s idea of SLB and connecting it to contemporary debates, Mike Rowe argues for an approach to researching SLBs that focuses on dilemmas in practice. Researching Street-level Bureaucracy is an essential resource for teachers and students of Public Administration, Public Policy, Social Work, and Criminal Justice.
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Researching Street-Level Bureaucracy - Bringing Out The Interpretive Dimensions

by Mike (University Of Liverpool, Uk) Rowe

~~196,02€~~ 176,42€ 10% OFF

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 Using Michael Lipskyâ€™s idea of SLB and connecting it to contemporary debates, Mike Rowe argues for an approach to researching SLBs that focuses on dilemmas in practice. Researching Street-level Bureaucracy is an essential resource for teachers and students of Public Administration, Public Policy, Social Work, and Criminal Justice.
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Researching Street-Level Bureaucracy - Bringing Out The Interpretive Dimensions

by Mike (University Of Liverpool, Uk) Rowe

~~52,71€~~ 47,44€ 10% OFF

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 Using Michael Lipskyâ€™s idea of SLB and connecting it to contemporary debates, Mike Rowe argues for an approach to researching SLBs that focuses on dilemmas in practice. Researching Street-level Bureaucracy is an essential resource for teachers and students of Public Administration, Public Policy, Social Work, and Criminal Justice.
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Among Wolves - Ethnography And The Immersive Study Of Power

by Timothy Pachirat

~~55,64€~~ 44,51€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Presented as a play, Among Wolves provides a practical guide on immersive participant-observation research and a sophisticated theoretical engagement with the relationship between ethnography as a research method and the operation of power.
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Among Wolves - Ethnography And The Immersive Study Of Power

by Timothy Pachirat

~~55,64€~~ 44,51€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Presented as a play, Among Wolves provides a practical guide on immersive participant-observation research and a sophisticated theoretical engagement with the relationship between ethnography as a research method and the operation of power.
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Interviewing In Social Science Research - A Relational Approach

by Lee Ann Fujii

~~54,31€~~ 43,45€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 What is interviewing and when is this method useful? What does it mean to select rather than sample interviewees? Once the researcher has found people to interview, how does she build a working relationship with her interviewees? What should the dynamics of talking and listening in interviews be? How do researchers begin to analyze the narrative data generated through interviews?Lee Ann Fujii explores the answers to these inquiries in Interviewing in Social Science Research, the latest entry in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods. This short, highly readable book explores an interpretive approach to interviewing for purposes of social science research. Using an interpretive methodology, the book examines interviewing as a relational enterprise. As a relational undertaking, interviewing is more akin to a two-way dialogue than a one-way interrogation. Fujii examines the methodological foundations for a relational approach to interviewing, while at the same time covering many of the practical nuts and bolts of relational interviewing. Examples come from the author’s experiences conducting interviews in Bosnia, Rwanda, and the United States, and from relevant literatures across a variety of social scientific disciplines. Appendices to the book contain specific tips and suggestions for relational interviewing in addition to interview excerpts that give readers a sense of how relational interviews unfold.This book will be of great value to graduate students and researchers from across the social sciences who are considering or planning to use interviews in their research, and can be easily used by academics for teaching courses or workshops in social science methods.
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Interviewing In Social Science Research - A Relational Approach

by Lee Ann Fujii

~~54,31€~~ 43,45€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 What is interviewing and when is this method useful? What does it mean to select rather than sample interviewees? Once the researcher has found people to interview, how does she build a working relationship with her interviewees? What should the dynamics of talking and listening in interviews be? How do researchers begin to analyze the narrative data generated through interviews?Lee Ann Fujii explores the answers to these inquiries in Interviewing in Social Science Research, the latest entry in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods. This short, highly readable book explores an interpretive approach to interviewing for purposes of social science research. Using an interpretive methodology, the book examines interviewing as a relational enterprise. As a relational undertaking, interviewing is more akin to a two-way dialogue than a one-way interrogation. Fujii examines the methodological foundations for a relational approach to interviewing, while at the same time covering many of the practical nuts and bolts of relational interviewing. Examples come from the author’s experiences conducting interviews in Bosnia, Rwanda, and the United States, and from relevant literatures across a variety of social scientific disciplines. Appendices to the book contain specific tips and suggestions for relational interviewing in addition to interview excerpts that give readers a sense of how relational interviews unfold.This book will be of great value to graduate students and researchers from across the social sciences who are considering or planning to use interviews in their research, and can be easily used by academics for teaching courses or workshops in social science methods.
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Among Wolves - Ethnography And The Immersive Study Of Power

by Timothy (University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Usa) Pachirat

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 Presented as a play, Among Wolves provides a practical guide on immersive participant-observation research and a sophisticated theoretical engagement with the relationship between ethnography as a research method and the operation of power.
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Among Wolves - Ethnography And The Immersive Study Of Power

by Timothy (University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Usa) Pachirat

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 Presented as a play, Among Wolves provides a practical guide on immersive participant-observation research and a sophisticated theoretical engagement with the relationship between ethnography as a research method and the operation of power.
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Elucidating Social Science Concepts - An Interpretivist Guide

by Frederic Charles Schaffer

~~54,31€~~ 43,45€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise. This book is a guide to working with them. Against the positivist project of concept "reconstruction"—the formulation of a technical, purportedly neutral vocabulary for measuring, comparing, and generalizing—Schaffer adopts an interpretivist approach that he calls "elucidation." Elucidation includes both a reflexive examination of social science technical language and an investigation into the language of daily life. It is intended to produce a clear view of both types of language, the relationship between them, and the practices of life and power that they evoke and sustain. After an initial chapter explaining what elucidation is and how it differs from reconstruction, the book lays out practical elucidative strategies—grounding, locating, and exposing—that help situate concepts in particular language games, times and tongues, and structures of power. It also explores the uses to which elucidation can be put and the moral dilemmas that attend such uses. By illustrating his arguments with lively analyses of such concepts as "person," "family," and "democracy," Schaffer shows rather than tells, making the book both highly readable and an essential guide for social science research.
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Elucidating Social Science Concepts - An Interpretivist Guide

by Frederic Charles Schaffer

~~54,31€~~ 43,45€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise. This book is a guide to working with them. Against the positivist project of concept "reconstruction"—the formulation of a technical, purportedly neutral vocabulary for measuring, comparing, and generalizing—Schaffer adopts an interpretivist approach that he calls "elucidation." Elucidation includes both a reflexive examination of social science technical language and an investigation into the language of daily life. It is intended to produce a clear view of both types of language, the relationship between them, and the practices of life and power that they evoke and sustain. After an initial chapter explaining what elucidation is and how it differs from reconstruction, the book lays out practical elucidative strategies—grounding, locating, and exposing—that help situate concepts in particular language games, times and tongues, and structures of power. It also explores the uses to which elucidation can be put and the moral dilemmas that attend such uses. By illustrating his arguments with lively analyses of such concepts as "person," "family," and "democracy," Schaffer shows rather than tells, making the book both highly readable and an essential guide for social science research.
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Analyzing Social Narratives

by Shaul Shenhav

~~55,64€~~ 44,51€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations, or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people construct, shape, and reshape their perceptions, identities, and beliefs. Such narrative research is a rapidly growing field in the social sciences, as well as in the societally oriented humanities, such as cultural studies. This methodologically framed book offers conceptual directions for the study of social narrative, guiding readers through the means of narrative research and raising important ethical and value-related dilemmas. Shenhav details three classic elements of narrative—text, story, and narration—familiar concepts to those in literary studies. To the classic trilolgy of terms, this book also adds multiplicity, a crucial element for applying narrative analysis to the social sciences as it rests on the understanding that social narratives seek reproduction and self-multiplicity in order to become "social" and influential. The aim of this book is to create an easy, clear, and welcoming introduction to narratology as a mode of analysis, especially designed for students of the social sciences to provide the basics of a narratological approach, and to help make research and writing in this tradition more systematic..
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Analyzing Social Narratives

by Shaul Shenhav

~~55,64€~~ 44,51€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations, or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people construct, shape, and reshape their perceptions, identities, and beliefs. Such narrative research is a rapidly growing field in the social sciences, as well as in the societally oriented humanities, such as cultural studies. This methodologically framed book offers conceptual directions for the study of social narrative, guiding readers through the means of narrative research and raising important ethical and value-related dilemmas. Shenhav details three classic elements of narrative—text, story, and narration—familiar concepts to those in literary studies. To the classic trilolgy of terms, this book also adds multiplicity, a crucial element for applying narrative analysis to the social sciences as it rests on the understanding that social narratives seek reproduction and self-multiplicity in order to become "social" and influential. The aim of this book is to create an easy, clear, and welcoming introduction to narratology as a mode of analysis, especially designed for students of the social sciences to provide the basics of a narratological approach, and to help make research and writing in this tradition more systematic..
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Interpreting International Politics

by Cecelia Lynch

~~52,99€~~ 42,39€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Interpreting International Politics addresses each of the major, "traditional" subfields in International Relations: International Law and Organization, International Security, and International Political Economy. But how are interpretivist methods and concerns brought to bear on these topics? In this slim volume Cecelia Lynch focuses on the philosophy of science and conceptual issues that make work in international relations distinctly interpretive. This work both legitimizes and demonstrates the necessity of post- and non-positivist scholarship.Interpretive approaches to the study of international relations span not only the traditional areas of security, international political economy, and international law and organizations, but also emerging and newer areas such as gender, race, religion, secularism, and continuing issues of globalization. By situating, describing, and analyzing major interpretive works in each of these fields, the book draws out the critical research challenges that are posed by and the progress that is made by interpretive work. Furthermore, the book also pushes forward interpretive insights to areas that have entered the IR radar screen more recently, including race and religion, demonstrating how work in these areas can inform all subfields of the discipline and suggesting paths for future research.
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Interpreting International Politics

by Cecelia Lynch

~~52,99€~~ 42,39€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Interpreting International Politics addresses each of the major, "traditional" subfields in International Relations: International Law and Organization, International Security, and International Political Economy. But how are interpretivist methods and concerns brought to bear on these topics? In this slim volume Cecelia Lynch focuses on the philosophy of science and conceptual issues that make work in international relations distinctly interpretive. This work both legitimizes and demonstrates the necessity of post- and non-positivist scholarship.Interpretive approaches to the study of international relations span not only the traditional areas of security, international political economy, and international law and organizations, but also emerging and newer areas such as gender, race, religion, secularism, and continuing issues of globalization. By situating, describing, and analyzing major interpretive works in each of these fields, the book draws out the critical research challenges that are posed by and the progress that is made by interpretive work. Furthermore, the book also pushes forward interpretive insights to areas that have entered the IR radar screen more recently, including race and religion, demonstrating how work in these areas can inform all subfields of the discipline and suggesting paths for future research.
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Interpretive Research Design - Concepts And Processes

by Dvora Yanow e Peregrine Schwartz-Shea

~~64,91€~~ 51,93€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 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.In focusing on researchers’ theoretical, ontological, epistemological, and methods choices in designing research projects, Schwartz-Shea and Yanow set the stage for other volumes in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods. They also engage some very practical issues, such as ethics reviews and the structure of research proposals. This concise guide explores where research questions come from, criteria for evaluating research designs, how interpretive researchers engage with "world-making," context, systematicity and flexibility, reflexivity and positionality, and such contemporary issues as data archiving and the researcher’s body in the field.
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Interpretive Research Design - Concepts And Processes

by Dvora Yanow e Peregrine Schwartz-Shea

~~64,91€~~ 51,93€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 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.In focusing on researchers’ theoretical, ontological, epistemological, and methods choices in designing research projects, Schwartz-Shea and Yanow set the stage for other volumes in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods. They also engage some very practical issues, such as ethics reviews and the structure of research proposals. This concise guide explores where research questions come from, criteria for evaluating research designs, how interpretive researchers engage with "world-making," context, systematicity and flexibility, reflexivity and positionality, and such contemporary issues as data archiving and the researcher’s body in the field.
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