Dvora Yanow: 4 books
by Dvora Yanow
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1999
In this new and timely book in the Qualitative Research Methodsseries, author Dvora Yanow outlines a more interpretive approach to policy analysis. She begins by describing what interpretive approaches are, and what they can mean to policy analysis. Chapters on symbolic language, symbolic objects,...
Constructing Race and Ethnicity in America
Category-making in Public Policy and Administration
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
What do we mean in the U.S. today when we use the terms "race" and "ethnicity"? What do we mean, and what do we understand, when we use the five standard race-ethnic categories: White, Black, Asian, Native American, and Hispanic? Most federal and state data collection agencies...
Interpretive Research Design
Concepts and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training they...
Interpretation and Method
Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography. Reflecting on their own research experiences, the contributors offer...