Explanation and Interpretation in Social Science An integrated view with specific reference to case studies
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740309829
Table of contents: title: Sisältö; title: From Expretation Towards Explanation; title: An alleged outside approach; title: The “truest” cause; title: – Facets from the history of social research since Thucydides; title: “Do not let your self be beaten”; title: Towards rules for the social; title: Introducing weak and strong explanations; title: Cause – A white dove or…?; title: On the road from weak towards stronger explanations; title: Behaviourism, statistical analysis and experiments; title: Towards stronger explanations, – from linear to more complex rules; title: An extension of the Social Positivism of Durkheim; title: Arguments in favour of explanatory designs; title: The call for reliability; title: Generalization as a practical challenge, external validity; title: A most breath taking challenge; title: Examples of emergence – however speculative – in the social domain; title: Models of emergent social behaviour; title: Emergence as an analytical tool for social research; title: Emergence sets the stage for longitudinal case research; title: The tension between an interpretative and the explanatory approach; title: Towards Understanding As Enrichment; title: Introduction; title: “Understanding” – a word with a multitude of meanings; title: Introducing the approaches of Weber, Schleiermacher, Dilthey as well as Schütz to “understanding”; title: Understanding as an expression of an inward search for recognition; title: Taking the Other for granted, as the anti theses to understanding; title: Towards understanding as a process of receivement; title: Helping the Other to get in touch with himself; title: Outlining the scene for telling and being told; title: Coping and enrichment as an ever expanding process; title: Understanding, as a commitment to a methodological principle of ignorance; title: Receivement metaphorically expanded to include text-reading; title: “Dancing around the beer box” or aligning text with sense; title: From explanation and interpretation to understanding one’s self – the promise of emancipation; title: Narratives as a medium for case studies; title: Is there really only one reality?; title: Confirmability; title: Interpretation, Explanation And Understanding; title: Summing up; title: The inner drives between the three approaches