CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- MAKING METHODS EXPLICIT -- SO WHAT'S WRONG WITH "QUALITATIVE"? -- VARIETIES OF INTERPRETIVE ANALYTIC METHODS -- METHODS, METHODOLOGIES, AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS -- NOTES -- PART I MEANING AND METHODOLOGY -- CHAPTER 1 THINKING INTERPRETIVELY: PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES -- TRUTH CLAIMS: EVIDENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND THE CHARACTER OF SCIENCE -- UNDERSTANDING VERSTEHEN: INTERPRETIVE GROUNDING -- THE MEANING OF MEANING: PHENOMENOLOGY'S LIFEWORLD -- THE EXPRESSION OF MEANING: HERMENEUTICS AND ARTIFACTS -- PROCESSES OF MEANING MAKING -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS Methodology and the Constitution of the Political -- CONTENDING CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE -- METHODOLOGY AND THE CONSTITUTION OF POLITICAL LIFE -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 GENERALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE The Difference That Interpretivism Makes -- BEFORE "COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS" -- COMPARISON, HISTORY, AND THE PURSUIT OF THE "GENERAL" IN POST-PARSONIAN SOCIAL SCIENCE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 NEITHER RIGOROUS NOR OBJECTIVE? Interrogating Criteria for Knowledge Claims in Interpretive Science -- PARSING RIGOR AND OBJECTIVITY -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS: RHETORICAL USES OF ARGUMENTATION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 JUDGING QUALITY Evaluative Criteria and Epistemic Communities -- UNDERSTANDING THE INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH GESTALT -- THE BEGINNINGS OF THE "CRITERIA LITERATURE": CLASSIC TEXTS -- CRITERIA: AN EVOLVING DEBATE -- AN INDUCTIVE APPROACH TO A SET OF CRITERIA -- BUT WHAT ABOUT CAUSALITY AND GENERALIZABILITY? -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS: EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES AND JUDGMENT -- NOTES -- PART II ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA.

CHAPTER 6 TALKING OUR WAY TO MEANINGFUL EXPLANATIONS A Practice-Centered View of Interviewing for Interpretive Research -- SO, WHAT MAKES INTERVIEW RESEARCH INTERPRETIVE? -- SO, WHAT IS AN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW AND WHAT MAKES IT IN DEPTH? -- IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS FOR INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH -- CONCLUSION: ON EMOTION AND THE IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING -- WHAT IS ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING? -- WHAT CAN BE LEARNED THROUGH ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING? -- HOW DOES ONE CONDUCT AN ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEW? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8 SEEING WITH AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY Explorations Beneath the Surface of Public Policies -- PARTICIPANT-OBSERVATION: WE ALL DO IT, BUT SOME OF US TAKE NOTES AND LOOK FOR PATTERNS -- MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE -- ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY AND POLICY ANALYSIS -- CULTIVATING AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9 HIGH POLITICS AND LOW DATA Globalization Discourses and Popular Culture -- HIGH POLITICS VERSUS LOW DATA -- A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- VARIETIES OF TEXTUAL EVIDENCE -- CONCLUSION: LOW DATA AND HIGH POLITICS REVISITED -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 10 THE NUMERATION OF EVENTS Studying Political Protest in India -- THE PROBLEM -- THE CONCEPT OF DOMESTIC PROTEST AND ITS NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION -- THE CONCEPT OF PROTEST AND THE INTERPRETIVE ALTERNATIVE -- NOTES -- PART III ANALYZING DATA -- CHAPTER 11 POLITICAL SCIENCE AS HISTORY: A REFLEXIVE APPROACH -- THE USES OF HISTORY IN DEMOCRATIC PEACE RESEARCH -- A REFLEXIVE CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PEACE -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 12 STUDYING THE CAREERS OF KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS Applying Science Studies to Legal Studies -- FRAME ANALYSIS -- SCIENCE STUDIES -- TWO APPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 13 ETHNOGRAPHY, IDENTITY, AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE -- EGYPTIAN-AMERICAN.

RESEARCHER -- CLASS -- GENDER -- RELIGION -- REGIONAL BACKGROUND -- CONCLUSION: PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THEORETICAL INSIGHT -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 14 MAKING SENSE OF MAKING SENSE Configurational Analysis and the Double Hermeneutic -- AGENCY AND THE DOUBLE HERMENEUTIC -- NEOPOSITIVISM -- SINGLE HERMENEUTICS -- LEGITIMATION: PRESERVING THE DOUBLE HERMENEUTIC -- IMPLEMENTING THE PROGRAM: MOMENTS AND MECHANISMS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 15 HOW NARRATIVES EXPLAIN -- PHILOSOPHY AND METHOD -- NARRATIVE EXPLANATIONS -- TRADITIONS AND DILEMMAS -- EPISTEMIC VALIDITY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 16 CRITICAL INTERPRETATION AND INTERWAR PEACE MOVEMENTS Challenging Dominant Narratives -- IDENTIFY DOMINANT INTERPRETATIONS -- ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATIONS -- COLLECT PRIMARY EVIDENCE -- ASSESS SECONDARY EVIDENCE -- CHOOSE SOURCES FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES -- DEVISE A METHOD OF SELECTION WHEN SOURCES ARE TOO NUMEROUS -- UNDERSTAND THE PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF EVIDENCE ACCUMULATION -- RESEARCH THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF EVIDENCE ACCUMULATION -- DO NOT EMPHASIZE FINDING "SMOKING GUNS" -- PUT THE EVIDENCE TOGETHER -- BE SELF-REFLEXIVE ABOUT ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS -- CHAPTER 17 VALUE-CRITICAL POLICY ANALYSIS The Case of Language Policy in the United States -- VALUE-CRITICAL ANALYSIS: A STEP-BY-STEP ARTICULATION -- CONCLUDING THOUGHT -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 18 STORIES FOR RESEARCH -- NARRATIVE FIELD RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY -- A PEDAGOGY OF STORY-BASED RESEARCH -- STORIES AND OTHER TEXTS -- STORIES FOR RESEARCH -- A PRACTICUM FOR DOING FIELD-BASED STORY RESEARCH -- STORY COLLECTION -- STORY ANALYSIS -- ONE STORY OF MANY -- CITIZEN-AGENT NARRATIVE -- THE REVELATIONS OF SILENCE -- THOUGHTS ON DISCOVERY, COLLABORATION, AND INCONCLUSIVENESS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 19 INTERPRETIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS Stories and Arguments in Analytical Documents.

POLICY CONTEXT FOR THE BLM WILDERNESS EISS -- DEFINING TERMS: CONTENT ANALYSIS, STORIES, AND ARGUMENTS -- FROM STATISTICAL TO INTERPRETIVE ANALYSES -- EISS, SENSE MAKING, AND INTERPRETIVE ANALYSIS -- CHECKING IN WITH THE BLM -- SUMMARIZING QUESTIONS IN AN INTERPRETIVE APPROACH TO TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 20 HOW BUILT SPACES MEAN A Semiotics of Space -- STUDYING BUILT SPACES -- ACCESSING SPACE DATA -- ANALYZING SPACE DATA: SPACE AS NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION -- MAKING SENSE OF SPACES -- NOTES -- PART IV RE-RECOGNIZING INTERPRETIVE METHODOLOGIES IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES -- CHAPTER 21 WE CALL IT A GRAIN OF SAND The Interpretive Orientation and a Human Social Science -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 22 DOING SOCIAL SCIENCE IN A HUMANISTIC MANNER -- PERSPECTIVES FROM THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE PROFESSIONS AND SCIENCE STUDIES -- ARE THERE, INDEED, INTERPRETIVE "METHODS"? DEBATES WITHIN INTERPRETIVE EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES -- WHAT IS AT STAKE? KNOWLEDGE MAKING AND POLITICS -- RECLAIMING HUMAN SCIENCE -- A RE-TURN TO HUMANISM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.