Explanation and Interpretation in Social Science
An integrated view with specific reference to case studies

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BOOK II offers a critique of interpretations made to look like explanations, expretations. Next it offers a more precise expansion of explanation as a multi-level endeavour. This not only make it possible to integrate different scientific disciplines into a whole, it may also help us to get a grasp of the social change along a time line. A perspective, which the author conceived during his work with longitudinal cross-comparative case studies and which he here develops, step by step, into a working model for emergence.
The last chapter is a discussion of and an illustrative new emphasis on understanding as the unique feature of case research as an experience of enrichment and a liberation of the researcher from preconceived – all too often second hand - perceptions. This further more add new dimensions to subjective-objective controversy surrounding case studies. Binding interpretation, explanation and understanding together.
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- From Expretation Towards Explanation
- An alleged outside approach
- The “truest” cause
- – Facets from the history of social research since Thucydides
- “Do not let your self be beaten”
- Towards rules for the social
- Introducing weak and strong explanations
- Cause – A white dove or…?
- On the road from weak towards stronger explanations
- Behaviourism, statistical analysis and experiments
- Towards stronger explanations, – from linear to more complex rules
- An extension of the Social Positivism of Durkheim
- Arguments in favour of explanatory designs
- The call for reliability
- Generalization as a practical challenge, external validity
- A most breath taking challenge
- Examples of emergence – however speculative – in the social domain
- Models of emergent social behaviour
- Emergence as an analytical tool for social research
- Emergence sets the stage for longitudinal case research
- The tension between an interpretative and the explanatory approach
- Towards Understanding As Enrichment
- Introduction
- “Understanding” – a word with a multitude of meanings
- Introducing the approaches of Weber, Schleiermacher, Dilthey as well as Schütz to “understanding”
- Understanding as an expression of an inward search for recognition
- Taking the Other for granted, as the anti theses to understanding
- Towards understanding as a process of receivement
- Helping the Other to get in touch with himself
- Outlining the scene for telling and being told
- Coping and enrichment as an ever expanding process
- Understanding, as a commitment to a methodological principle of ignorance
- Receivement metaphorically expanded to include text-reading
- “Dancing around the beer box” or aligning text with sense
- From explanation and interpretation to understanding one’s self – the promise of emancipation
- Narratives as a medium for case studies
- Is there really only one reality?
- Confirmability
- Interpretation, Explanation And Understanding
- Summing up
- The inner drives between the three approaches