Interpretive Research Design: Concepts and Processes
About this ebook
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.
About the author
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea is Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah.
Dvora Yanow is Guest Professor in the Communication, Philosophy, and Technology sub-department, Faculty of Social Sciences, at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Together, they are co-editors of Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn. They also created the "Methods Café" at both the American Political Science Association and Western Political Science Association annual meetings and ran them for 12 years. Currently, they are researching Institutional Review Board (and other ethics review committee) policies and especially their relationships with field research.
