Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide by Schaffer, Frederic Charles

Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415893244)

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Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide by Schaffer, Frederic Charles

Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide

$200.00
Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide by Schaffer, Frederic Charles

Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book examines social science concepts through an interpretivist lens with the aim of providing concrete conceptual guidance for future research. Specifically, this book seeks to: 1) identify characteristic dangers that attend the making and use of reconfigured concepts; 2) lay out ways in which a select number of interpretivist approaches have been used to mitigate these dangers; 3) introduce practical tools that rework these interpretivist approaches into explicit and useable research methods; 4) show concretely how these elucidation tools can be gainfully used by social scientists working both within and outside of the interpretivist tradition.

Author: Frederic Charles Schaffer
ISBN-10: 0415893240
ISBN-13: 9780415893244
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2015
Pages: 118
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
By Frederic Charles Schaffer
By Frederic Charles Schaffer
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Frederic Charles Schaffer is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He served two terms as chair of the Committee on Concepts and Methods of the International Political Science Association and teaches ethnographic methods at the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, which is attended each summer by approximately 180 participants from schools, departments, and research centers around the world. A past Program Chair for the Interpretation and Methods Conference Group of the American Political Science Association, he now serves as a member of the Group's Executive Committee. Schaffer is the author of Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture and The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform, and the editor of Elections for Sale: The Causes and Consequences of Vote Buying.

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