Truth and interpretation in Social Science With particular reference to case studies
Publisher: Bookboon
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740309812
Table of contents: title: Coming To Terms; title: A crucial event, a learning experience; title: Looking around for arguments to fit “your” case; title: Tactical tricks to use in order to circumvent conflicting facts; title: Words cover only a minute part of the potentially sensible; title: Induction: From facts to rules; title: Deduction of the singular from a given rule or a set of rules; title: Truth; title: The counterfactual as an inspiration; title: Do not take it for granted that you know what it means!; title: Correspondence; title: Coherence; title: Correspondence versus coherence and vice versa; title: Socially related criteria of truth derived from human behaviour; title: Pragmatism as an antidote to our eagerness to explain; title: Validity claims; title: The quest for generalized statements; title: Generalization by enumeration based on sampling; title: Generalization by a constructive integration of theories; title: Analytical generalization; title: Be careful not to miss the most important point; title: Truth – not only of question of “either or”, but of level; title: The concern for reliability; title: The Opener; title: Introducing explanation, interpretation, rhetoric and understanding; title: Modes Of Interpretation; title: The historical dimension; title: Meaning; title: Making sense of the term “interpretation”; title: Interpretation as a craft – a historical perspective; title: Interpretation, negative social practices; title: Interpretation as translation; title: The challenge of classification – introducing level and span; title: Some ad hoc interpretations primarily at the minute level; title: Mid-level interpretations; title: Minute and mid-level theorizing; title: Grand-level theorizing; title: Structuralism, a grand-level epistemological scheme,; title: Characteristics of interpretative practices across levels; title: The more pointed horn: Exaggeration and simplification; title: The softer in all seriousness the more playful approach 4.15; title: Do not fool your self, play can be serious fun!