Truth and interpretation in Social Science

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Science
Withparticularreferencetocasestudies
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Truth and interpretation in
Social Science
With particular reference to case studies

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With particular reference to case studies
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Truth and interpretation in Social Science
With particular reference to case studies

Contents

Contents
1

Coming To Terms

9

1.1

A crucial event, a learning experience

9

1.2

Looking around for arguments to it “your” case

11

1.3

Tactical tricks to use in order to circumvent conlicting facts

13

1.4

Words cover only a minute part of the potentially sensible

15

1.5

Induction: From facts to rules

20

1.6

Deduction of the singular from a given rule or a set of rules

33

2

Truth

38

2.1

he counterfactual as an inspiration

38

2.2

Do not take it for granted that you know what it means!

40

2.3

Correspondence

42

2.4

Coherence

51

2.5

Correspondence versus coherence and vice versa

62

2.6

Socially related criteria of truth derived from human behaviour

67

2.7

Pragmatism as an antidote to our eagerness to explain

72

2.8

Validity claims

75

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Truth and interpretation in Social Science
With particular reference to case studies

Contents

2.9

he quest for generalized statements

79

2.10

Generalization by enumeration based on sampling

82

2.11

Generalization by a constructive integration of theories

85

2.12

Analytical generalization

87

2.13

Be careful not to miss the most important point

91

2.14

Truth – not only of question of “either or”, but of level

92

2.15

he concern for reliability

95

3

he Opener

99

3.1

Introducing explanation, interpretation, rhetoric and understanding

99

4

Modes Of Interpretation

104

4.1

he historical dimension

104

4.2

Meaning

106

4.3

Making sense of the term “interpretation”

113

4.4

Interpretation as a crat – a historical perspective

117

4.5

Interpretation, negative social practices

120

4.6

Interpretation as translation

121

4.7

he challenge of classiication – introducing level and span

130

4.8

Some ad hoc interpretations primarily at the minute level

133

360°
thinking

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