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"Interpretive Interactionism argues strongly for a new approach to qualitative research methods. Writing primarily for established practitioners and advanced graduate students, Denzin seeks to fuse influences of symbolic interactionist, hermeneutical, feminist, post-modern, and critical-biographical thought into his personal approach to research, which he calls interpretive interactionism. This work cleaves to the forefront of the field through its unapologetic advocacy of the subjective, its emphasis on the biographical, and its appeal for experimentation in new writing conventions. Readers who want acquaintance with current thinking in the field will find it well synthesized in this volume. This is one of the simplest and clearest presentations of his work Denzin has offered in years."
-CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY
Contents
Preface
1. Interpretive Criteria in the Seventh Moment
Interpretive Criteria in the Seventh Moment
The Performance Turn
Experiences and Performances
Performing Montana
Conclusions
2. The Interpretive Point of View
Performing Racial Memories
Personal Biography
The Interpretive Heritage
Opening Up the World for Interpretation
What Is Interpretive Interactionism?
Interpretation and Science
History, Power, Emotion, and Knowledge
The Criteria of Interpretation
The Agenda
Conclusions
3. Securing Biographical Experience
Exemplars
Overview
Narrative's Moment
Selves, Narratives and Sacred Places
Interpreting and Biographical
Conclusions
4. The Interpretive Process The Steps to Interpretation
Framing the Research Question
Deconstruction
Capture
Bracketing
Construction
Contextualizing
Evaluating Interpretive Materials
Conclusions
5. Situating Interpretation
Time, History, and Mapping
Learning the Language and Its Meanings
Researcher as Newcomer and Knowing Subject
Conclusions
6. Thick Description
A Double Crisis
Thick Description as Performative Writing
Examples of Thick Description-as-Inscription
Thin Description-as-Inscription
Good and Bad Thick Description
Conclusions
7. Doing Interpretation
Exemplars of Interpretation
What Interpretation Does
Types of Interpretation and Exemplars
Performing and Representing Interpretation
Understanding
Conclusions
8. Conclusion: On Interpretive Interactionism
Interpretation
Biographical Experience
Reading and Writing Experience
Fiction and Interpretation
Interpretive Interactionism in the Postmodern Period
Glossary of Terms
References
Index
