POS Hermeneutics Flashcards
(20 cards)
Hermeneutics in greek
“interpreter” which means the interpretation of intentions.
It looks at the intentions of individuals to gain understanding of their behavior.
Why individualism in Hermeneutics?
- players are seen to be identical
- individual level of rational behavioral choices
Why understanding in Hermeneutics?
- about developing appreciation for the social world, meaning is created through interpersonal interactions and social relations
- appreciation does not extend to other similar situations and is not about finding a general law for all situations together
Explaining
- researcher looks at the problems in 3rd person
- explanational theories are part of behaviorism which states that only the consequences and causes of individual behavior are important in an explanation (more holism than individualism)
Understanding
- research takes on a first-person perspective
- understanding theories are often part of hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is the interpretation of intentions and actions
Three layers of understanding
- symbolic understanding
- understanding of the meaning
- motive
- symbolic understanding
symbols constitute the first layer of understanding. These give hints about the interactions of the actions made by the people
- understanding of the meaning
- combine all symbols and form an overview
- motive
- the last layer tries to get an understanding of the motives and intentions of the people conduction the actions.
Ontological hermeneutics
- strong form of hermeneutics (Heidegger)
- from the moment that a baby is born, it starts to interpret the world around him.
- Hermeneutics is an ontological condition
Epistemological hermeneutics
- weaker form of hermeneutics (Betti)
- Q: How do we learn about our environment?
- > by interpreting values and symbols
- we should not interpret the most fundamental circumstances and issues of humanity.
- hermeneutics is a tool to understand things
sense-making
- give meaning to the situations
- situation is given and we give meaning to it
enacting
- the way you relate to the social environment around you
- you interpret the world and the world interprets you
sense-making more in depth
- looks at human activity as an ongoing process of input and output and you use subjective facts and make them objective
- subjects develop an individual understanding
- under normal conditions, understanding is continuously reproduced by subjects enacting that understanding
- when understanding breaks down: sense-making comes in and subjects try to make sense of what is going on, both individually and collectively
problems of sense-making
- individuals have to put in effort to understand a situation
- we must learn to interpret something
- every individual makes a different estimation because we are unique
sense-making and hermeneutics
individualism:
- hermeneutics believes sense-making is ongoing
- based on individual judgement
- individual interpretation is human condition
understanding:
- not about general law of formula
- about understanding a unique individual situation
enacting more in depth
- cognitive approach of creating social structures
individualism: - starts on an individual level
- every person divides his attention in different ways
understanding: - categories of knowledge are created by interpersonal interactions and the interpretation of social relationships
constitutive beliefs
- about the identity of the firm, their competitors, the suppliers and the customers
causal beliefs
- about what it takes to successfully compete within the identified environment
mental model
A mental model is an explanation of someone’s thought process about how something works in the real world.
