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	Interpretivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Interpretivism is a school of thought in contemporary jurisprudence and the philosophy of law.
		In the English speaking world, interpretivism is usually identified with Ronald Dworkin's theses on the nature of law, but the word also covers continental legal hermeneutics and authors such as Helmut Coing and Emilio Betti.
		Stanford Encyclopedia's articles on legal interpretivism, by Nicos Stavropoulos, and on interpretation and coherence in law, by Julie Dickson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interpretivism (288 words)

	Interpretivist Theories of Law
		Interpretivism is the view that, if true, a proposition of law is true in virtue of an interpretive fact: in a nutshell, in virtue of the fact that the proposition follows from the best justification of a community's political practice.
		Interpretivism therefore claims that legal requirements are sensitive to both the facts of the practice and the values served by it, but not fully determined by either.
		Interpretivism says that values select, from among all the facts that could conceivably be determinants of legal duty, the ones that are such determinants, by providing an account that justifies the impact that each precise determinant has on our rights and duties.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/law-interpretivist (4880 words)

	Navigating the Hidden Assumptions of the Introductory Research Methods Text
		Interpretivism assumes that the social world does not have an existence separate from the investigator and that it is the manner by which the investigator interprets the social world that determines reality.
		However, it is further argued that drug addiction among Haitian immigrants lends itself to field research studies (grounded in interpretivism) because working with this population and their contexts often requires multiple, subjective meanings and overlapping social contexts to be interpreted.
		The contrast between positivism and interpretivism is presented as a distinction among “positivists,” “interpretivists” and “critical” social science.
	radicalpedagogy.icaap.org /content/issue6_1/baronov.html (3126 words)

	"ALL THIS AND SO MUCH MORE": THE QUEST FOR ORIGINAL INTENT AND THE PRACTICE OF NON-INTERPRETIVISM
		Thus interpretivism is to be seen as the "mask" assumed by ideology at least within the Western culture.
		The two major traits of this conception are a frameork theory of understanding, and the purport of interpretivism as the prevailing paradigm for social and humanist studies.
		This notion was coupled with a stretching of interpretivism as a general paradigm: nature, society, and history all became texts to be captured by way of interpretation.
	www.jus.unitn.it /cardozo/users/pigi/Allofthis.htm (6556 words)

	Interpretivism
		It is worth noting that interpretivism holds the promise of elegantly vindicating the supervenience of intentional states on matters physical, with no reductionist assumptions.
		Interpretivism in general is the thesis that mental content is judgement-dependent: the facts about what propositional attitudes someone has are exactly captured by the (potential) judgements of some Ideal Interpreter (or Interpreters).
		Interpretivism should be distinguished from what Dennett calls interpretationism, which "likens the question of whether a person has a particular belief to the question of whether a person is immoral, or has style, or talent, or would make a good wife" (1979, p.
	web.mit.edu /abyrne/www/Interpretivism.html (8825 words)

	QUALITATIVE RESEARCH I - James Neill
		Interpretivism, or the qualitative approach, is a way to gain insights through discovering meanings by improving our comprehension of the whole.
		Interpretivism is critical of the positivism because it seeks to collect and analyze data from parts of a phenomena and, in so doing, positivism can miss important aspects of a comprehensive understanding of the whole.
		Interpretivism proposes that there are multiple realities, not single realities of phenomena, and that these realities can differ across time and place.
	www.wilderdom.com /OEcourses/PROFLIT/Class6Qualitative1.htm (929 words)

	Philosophy of law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Legal realism is the view that the law should be understood as it is practiced in the courts, law offices, and police stations, rather than as it is set forth in statutes or learned treatises.
		Legal interpretivism is the view that law is not a set of data or of facts, but what lawyers aim to construct or obtain in their morality laden practice.
		The second important debate in recent years concerns interpretivism, a view that is strongly associated with Ronald Dworkin.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philosophy_of_law (1339 words)

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		Both of the major rivals to interpretivism, TT and ST, have the prospect of offering unified stories of both kinds of attribution; and that is a clear theoretical advantage as compared with interpretivism.
		But interpretivism suggests (on the present proposal) that people’s prior grasp of the norms for belief are all they have at their disposal to comprehend what a belief is. They have no independent understanding of what it means to believe something.
		To sum up, interpretivism, or the rationality theory, stumbles badly in its attempts to answer each of the three main questions it purports to answer, or can reasonably be expected to answer: the question of third-person attribution, the question of first-person attribution, and the question of the contents of mental-state concepts.
	ruccs.rutgers.edu /courses/S2002_600/papers/Chap3_goldman.doc (5715 words)

	Theory and Methdology
		Moreover, it would seem to follow from Smith's version of interpretivism, that this is unavoidable; though this is not something that he emphasises.
		But this is only the case if one retains the empiricist definition of knowledge, and interpretivism itself relies on this in order to deny the possibility of universal knowledge.
		At the same time, for reasons I have explained, I believe a rather misleading impression is given of the relationships among the three paradigms discussed, and of that between interpretivism (as Smith defines it) and the sociological research usually categorised under this heading.
	www.rdg.ac.uk /RevSoc/archive/volume10/number3/10-3d.htm (1571 words)

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		In elaborating interpretivism’s positions on a host of issues, I differentiate among these three approaches, mostly bracketing the critical, as post-modern epistemology is not part of this chapter, concentrating instead on varieties of the first two.
		Indeed, both accounts of the mainstream and interpretivism are based on what their practitioners and theorists write should or must be done to produce knowledge, not what actually happens in practice.
		Lyotard argued that narrative knowledge, the kind that may be produced through interpretivism, “certifies itself in the pragmatics of its own transmission without having recourse to argumentation and proof.” I consider this to be the boundary of my own analysis; I will not explore the meaning of evidence in the postmodern condition.
	psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu /faculty/thopf/limits.doc (10419 words)

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		This question is important because I believe interpretivism is the cornerstone of a constitutional jurisprudence of judicial restraint.
		By "interpretivism," I mean the principle that judges, in resolving constitutional questions, should rely on the express provisions of the Constitution or upon those norms that are clearly implicit in its text.[2] Under an interpretivist approach, the original intention of the Framers is the controlling guide for constitutional interpretation.
		The strength of interpretivism is that it channels and constrains this discretion in a manner consistent with the Constitution.
	www.constitution.org /cmt/stlotl/stlotl.txt (16403 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Democracy and Distrust, by John Hart Ely (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		...Interpretivism, too, because it imposes on the present generation the views of past ones, may to some extent be anti-democratic, but it fits much more closely with our usual ideas about law and written documents and how they work...
		...Because interpretivism relies upon constitutional language, but the language of the open-ended clauses calls for reference to some other unspecified sources (what are the immunities of citizens, for example...
		...Ely argues for a kind of expanded interpretivism, one which is entirely consistent with the usual construction of legal documents...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V69I6P84-1.htm (2099 words)

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		In contrast, he maintains, the debate over interpretivism and noninterpretivism has focused upon whether the Court should be concerned with interpreting the Constitution.
		For example, he argues that Jesse Choper and Michael Perry present a functional justification to support the Court’s noninterpretivist approach, and their position is that the Court’s performance and results have been positive.
		McKeever is pessimistic that the justices will ever embrace an interpretivist approach to constitutional adjudication; but he is not convinced by the justifications offered by the noninterpretivists, and he is not convinced that the activist, noninterpretivist policies of the Court have been successful in achieving their goals.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/MCKEEVER.htm (1834 words)

	Harvard University Press: Democracy and Distrust
		The first, "interpretivism," maintains that we should stick as closely as possible to what is explicit in the document itself.
		Thus, Ely's emphasis is on the procedural side of due process, on the preservation of governmental structure rather than on the recognition of elusive social values.
		At the same time, his approach is free of interpretivism's rigidity because it is fully responsive to the changing wishes of a popular majority.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/ELYDEM.html (354 words)

	Response (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A very important remark: the term «relativism» is used frequently with two (not necessarily linked) meanings: (i) the anti-theoretical dimension of interpretivism, that is, the rejection of general theories; (ii) the denial of the possibility of knowledge, be it general/theoretical or particular.
		Anthropologists of this position claim that the aim of their inquiry is not scientific at all: it has more to do with aesthetics and politics.
		2(a) -> 1(a): the defense of interpretivism implies isolationism, that is, if you do not envisage the possibility of general theories, you deny the possibility of intertheoretic relations with the natural sciences.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~psousa/Home334.htm (1921 words)

	methodlect
		Much of the force of interpretivism derives from the point that human behaviour is intentional (thus we must capture the intentions of the agent in our research) and rule-governed (voting provides a good example, or playing Monopoly).
		Interpretivism accepts that meanings may not be directly accessible to the subjects of our research, but requires us to fit the meanings we think we find with the meanings they possess, translate our terms into theirs.
		According to the latter a whole conceptual scheme may be disordered, in the way that eg Marx or Nietzsche indicate, so it is no use looking for some kind of acceptance of our interpretation on the part of those being studied.
	www.dur.ac.uk /r.d.smith/methodlect.htm (468 words)

	methods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The interpretivist paradigm denies there is an objective reality independent of the frame of reference of the observer, reality is mind dependent and influenced by the process of observation.
		Interpretivism does not therefore concern itself with the search for broadly applicable laws and rules, but rather seeks to produce descriptive analyses that emphasise deep, interpretive understandings of social phenomena.
		The interpretivist paradigm thus generally leads to the use of qualitative research methods that enable the researcher to gain an descriptive understanding of the values, actions and concerns of the subjects under study.
	www.homestead.com /rouncefield/files/as_soc_method_30.htm (720 words)

	Constitution Page - Constitutional Myths and Realities Myths 7 and 8
		Nor am I enamored with the term "strict construction" to describe the proper duties of the judge, for it is the role of the judge to interpret the words of the law reasonably-not "strictly" or "loosely," not "broadly" or "narrowly," just reasonably.
		In each instance, it is the duty of the judge to give faithful meaning to the words of the lawmaker and Jet the chips fall where they may.
		One prominent illustration of the differing approaches of interpretivism and non-interpretivism arises in the context of the constitutionality of capital punishment.
	www.americanchristianhistory.com /constitution12.html (787 words)

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		In contrast to positivism, interpretivism regards reality as socially constructed rather than objectively determined, and its ontology embraces causally connected observable events in a world populated not only by inanimate objects but also humans who are active, self-aware and capable of perceiving and generating meaning.
		The shortcomings of the dominant methodologies The application of positivism to the social sciences has been attacked on a number of different grounds but perhaps most telling is the simple observation that by adopting an ontology in which humans are passive recording agents, positivism excludes one of the most important aspects of social reality.
		On the other hand, interpretivism is criticised (inter alia) for being overly reliant on the opinions and perceptions of the human participants in systems, and thus dependent upon information whose reliability is open to question.
	www.staffs.ac.uk /schools/business/bsadmin/staff/s3/docs/altmeth.doc (5277 words)

	AFA.Net - Divisions - Center for Law and Policy - Lex Vera 3
		Interpretivism looks to values and principles embodied in the text of the Constitution -- it is the only analytical means for preserving the rule of law in construing the Constitution.
		Interpretivism envisions the judicial role as discovering the pre-existing law, not "making" new law.
		We at the Center for Law and Policy believe that the authority to make law must be kept distinct from the authority to expound it.
	www.afa.net /clp/lexvera3.asp (1522 words)

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		The methods used should not be dependant upon the subjective interpretations of a re searcher and research should be capable of exact replication (as a means of checking for error, falsifying a theory and so forth).
		Unlike the positivists...the realists claim that what we directly observe in both nature and in society is generated by hidden mechanisms which we cannot observe, but w hich scientists infer from observations and theoretical work.
		By this I mean it involves a closely-related set of dependent values which are used by a researcher to guide the way in which data is collected and knowledge pro duced.
	www.sociology.org.uk /tmmeth1.doc (2221 words)

	An Interview with Yvonna S. Lincoln
		The overall aim of this paradigm is to understand others' experiences and relate them to one's own reality.
		Interpretivism is a fairly recent development in the way of viewing the world.
		Therefore, to gain a better understanding of its development, we have chosen to conduct an interview with one of the ground breaking interpretivist researchers, Dr. Yvonna S. Lincoln.
	www.edb.utexas.edu /faculty/scheurich/proj2/text/interpretivism.htm (1863 words)

	tdaxp : PNM Theory is Critical Theory (That's a good thing)
		Interpretivism is a profoundly natural theory, that's already in use in respectable places.
		They would also be distorting, as it would imply that true positivism or true interpretivism was used to derive them -- instead of previous applications of morals, ethics, and perspective (that is, critical theory).
		It would find context from interpretivism, finding that many residents do not agree there is adequate health care, so adequate health care's presence isn't "true." With that positivism can help, giving us empirical knowledge that certain routes are difficult to drive, that statistically fewer people can travel this road or that, etc.
	tdaxp.blogspirit.com /archive/2006/04/01/pnm-theory-is-critical-theory-that-s-a-good-thing.html (1643 words)

	Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Research: Review and Critique
		Empiricism/positivism cannot account for the way in which social reality is socially constructed and maintained, or how people interpret their own actions and the actions of others.
		Interpretivism requires that this everyday reality must be discovered and described (through intersubjectivity, interaction and language) as the first and essential step in any social investigation.
		However, these two points of criticisms do not undermine the basic foundations of interpretivism, only indicates that there are some areas of interest to the social scientist with which interpretivism/idealism cannot deal.
	uk.geocities.com /balihar_sanghera/ipsrreviewandcritique.html (4030 words)

	Psychological Record, The: Q methodology as process and context in interpretivism, communication, and psychoanalytic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Psychological Record, The: Q methodology as process and context in interpretivism, communication, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy research
		Q methodology as process and context in interpretivism, communication, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy research
		Traditional theories of psychology are increasingly giving way to approaches that examine the everyday world of "ordinary" language, narratives, conversations, and accounts that create and constitute the world as we know it.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3645/is_199910/ai_n8863584/pg_6 (393 words)

	08.Cantrell.fin.htm
		Although acceptance of interpretivism is increasing within education, positivism remains the dominant paradigm for both education and environmental education.
		The intent is to inform practice as well as to clarify criteria which are appropriate for assessing the merit of environmental education research based upon the interpretive model.
		Unlike positivists who attempt to separate values from facts and offer explanations of reality which are empirically verifiable, interpretivists accept the inseparable bond between values and facts and attempt to understand reality, especially the behavior of people, within a social context.
	www.uleth.ca /edu/research/ciccte/naceer.pgs/pubpro.pgs/Alternate/PubFiles/08.Cantrell.fin.htm (7794 words)

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