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Interpretivism may refer to: Interpretivism (social science), an approach to social science that opposes the positivism of natural science; Qualitative research, a method of inquiry in social science and related disciplines; Interpretivism (legal), a school of thought in contemporary jurisprudence and the philosophy of law
In social science, antipositivism (also interpretivism, negativism [citation needed] or antinaturalism) is a theoretical stance which proposes that the social realm cannot be studied with the methods of investigation utilized within the natural sciences, and that investigation of the social realm requires a different epistemology. Fundamental ...
The main claims of interpretivism are that Law is not a set of given data, conventions or physical facts, but what lawyers aim to construct or obtain in their practice. This marks a first difference between interpretivism and legal positivism. But the refusal that law be a set of given entities opposes interpretivism to natural law too.
Verstehen (German pronunciation: [fɛɐˈʃteːən] ⓘ, lit. transl. "to understand"), in the context of German philosophy and social sciences in general, has been used since the late 19th century – in English as in German – with the particular sense of the "interpretive or participatory" examination of social phenomena. [1]
Interpretive Social Science (2018) written with Mark Bevir, offered a systematic defense of interpretivism as the philosophical framework appropriate to guiding research across the human sciences, including in the fields of political science, sociology, economics, and psychology.
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a qualitative form of psychology research. IPA has an idiographic focus, which means that instead of producing generalization findings, it aims to offer insights into how a given person, in a given context, makes sense of a given situation. Usually, these situations are of personal significance ...
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Interpretivism is a DAB with links to Antipositivism and Qualitative_research, so that's interesting, but the articles (especially the former) contain many refs that presumably explain more details on the perspective.