Explanation and Interpretation in Social Science An integrated view with specific reference to case studies
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2015
ISBN-13: 9788740309829
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. From Expretation Towards Explanation; title: 1.1. An alleged outside approach; title: 1.2. The “truest” cause; title: 1.3. – Facets from the history of social research since Thucydides; title: 1.4. “Do not let your self be beaten”; title: 1.5. Towards rules for the social; title: 1.6. Introducing weak and strong explanations; title: 1.7. Cause – A white dove or…?; title: 1.8. On the road from weak towards stronger explanations; title: 1.9. Behaviourism, statistical analysis and experiments; title: 1.10. Towards stronger explanations, – from linear to more complex rules; title: 1.11. An extension of the Social Positivism of Durkheim; title: 1.12. Arguments in favour of explanatory designs; title: 1.13. The call for reliability; title: 1.14. Generalization as a practical challenge, external validity; title: 1.15. A most breath taking challenge; title: 1.16. Examples of emergence – however speculative – in the social domain; title: 1.17. Models of emergent social behaviour; title: 1.18. Emergence as an analytical tool for social research; title: 1.19. Emergence sets the stage for longitudinal case research; title: 1.20. The tension between an interpretative and the explanatory approach; title: 2. Towards Understanding As Enrichment; title: 2.1. Introduction; title: 2.2. “Understanding” – a word with a multitude of meanings; title: 2.3. Introducing the approaches of Weber, Schleiermacher, Dilthey as well as Schütz to “understanding”; title: 2.4. Understanding as an expression of an inward search for recognition; title: 2.5. Taking the Other for granted, as the anti theses to understanding; title: 2.6. Towards understanding as a process of receivement; title: 2.7. Helping the Other to get in touch with himself; title: 2.8. Outlining the scene for telling and being told; title: 2.9. Coping and enrichment as an ever expanding process; title: 2.10. Understanding, as a commitment to a methodological principle of ignorance; title: 2.11. Receivement metaphorically expanded to include text-reading; title: 2.12. “Dancing around the beer box” or aligning text with sense; title: 2.13. From explanation and interpretation to understanding one’s self – the promise of emancipation; title: 2.14. Narratives as a medium for case studies; title: 2.15. Is there really only one reality?; title: 2.16. Confirmability; title: 3. Interpretation, Explanation And Understanding; title: 3.1. Summing up; title: 3.2. The inner drives between the three approaches