College 5 Flashcards
(14 cards)
Interpretation/hermeneutics
Originally: discovering the meaning of texts. Later: understanding peoples thoughts, feelings, motives, lives, experiences, culture, historical tradions.
Erklären
looking at causes
Verstehen
Grasping reasons an meaning
Interpretive methodology
Understanding how people experience the world from their own perspective.
Ideal of authenticity
Get an authentic presentation of experiences an soscial worlds.
Reflecivity
Ability to refelct on and analyse one’s own position, bias, and influence in a given situation.
Bracketing
Reflect on the way bliefs, values, interests, feelings and social roles might influence data collection and analysis.
Full disclosure
The interpreter’s experiences, feelings and mistakes are described and integrated into the analysis.
Interpretation
Art of making unfamiliar, strange, or seemingly irrational behavior comprehensible.
Asymmetry thesis (Evans-Pritchard)
The idea that false belief and illogical inference need explanation, while true and logical beliefs do not.
Symmetry (Winch)
All of the subjects’ beliefs, reasoning, and practices ought to be treated symmetrically, explained without the researchers preconceptions.
Relativism
Truth and rationality depend on culture.
Principle of charity
When interpreting something, we should assume the most logical version of what they mean.
Human cognition
People have universal patterns of reasoning and thinking (limit on interpertivism)
