Truth and interpretation in Social Science With particular reference to case studies
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2015
ISBN-13: 9788740309812
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. Coming To Terms; title: 1.1. A crucial event, a learning experience; title: 1.2. Looking around for arguments to fit “your” case; title: 1.3. Tactical tricks to use in order to circumvent conflicting facts; title: 1.4. Words cover only a minute part of the potentially sensible; title: 1.5. Induction: From facts to rules; title: 1.6. Deduction of the singular from a given rule or a set of rules; title: 2. Truth; title: 2.1. The counterfactual as an inspiration; title: 2.2. Do not take it for granted that you know what it means!; title: 2.3. Correspondence; title: 2.4. Coherence; title: 2.5. Correspondence versus coherence and vice versa; title: 2.6. Socially related criteria of truth derived from human behaviour; title: 2.7. Pragmatism as an antidote to our eagerness to explain; title: 2.8. Validity claims; title: 2.9. The quest for generalized statements; title: 2.10. Generalization by enumeration based on sampling; title: 2.11. Generalization by a constructive integration of theories; title: 2.12. Analytical generalization; title: 2.13. Be careful not to miss the most important point; title: 2.14. Truth – not only of question of “either or”, but of level; title: 2.15. The concern for reliability; title: 3. The Opener; title: 3.1. Introducing explanation, interpretation, rhetoric and understanding; title: 4. Modes Of Interpretation; title: 4.1. The historical dimension; title: 4.2. Meaning; title: 4.3. Making sense of the term “interpretation”; title: 4.4. Interpretation as a craft – a historical perspective; title: 4.5. Interpretation, negative social practices; title: 4.6. Interpretation as translation; title: 4.7. The challenge of classification – introducing level and span; title: 4.8. Some ad hoc interpretations primarily at the minute level; title: 4.9. Mid-level interpretations; title: 4.10. Minute and mid-level theorizing; title: 4.11. Grand-level theorizing; title: 4.12. Structuralism, a grand-level epistemological scheme,; title: 4.13. Characteristics of interpretative practices across levels; title: 4.14. The more pointed horn: Exaggeration and simplification; title: 4.15. The softer in all seriousness the more playful approach 4.15; title: 4.16. Do not fool your self, play can be serious fun!