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Dear Reviewer, Dear Author: Looking for Reflexivity and Other Hallmarks of Interpretive Research
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Dear Reviewer, Dear Author:
Looking for Reflexivity and Other Hallmarks of Interpretive Research
Dvora Yanow
Strategic Chair in Meaning and Method
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
d.## email not listed ##
Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association
August 30th-September 3, 2006
46-24 Interpretive Methods in Practice, Saturday, Sep 2, 8:00 AM
Copyright by the American Political Science Association.
Abstract
Readers judge authors’ claims on the basis of ‘signaling devices’ written into manuscripts. What ‘devices’ should authors of ethnographic and other interpretive research manuscripts be including in their methods discussions? By what criteria should reviewers and other readers of these manuscripts be judging them? Such matters are usually engaged during the research design phase, but there is reason to re-engage them at the end of a research project from the perspective of the reader of the research report.
Turning a reflexive eye on my own participant-observer role as a reviewer of such manuscripts, I have attempted to identify those elements of interpretive methods that are, I posit, the sine qua non of such writing. Their absence leaves me, as a reviewer, wondering about the character of the evidence presented and how trustworthy the “truth claims” of the research are; and so my hope is that this reflection might help authors of such research write better – more cogently argued – manuscripts prior to submitting them to journals. But I also hope this discussion will be useful to editors and reviewers who may not themselves possess interpretive methodological expertise and who may, therefore, not be aware that such methods follow different evaluative criteria from those deriving from quantitative-positivist methodologies.
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Dear Reviewer, Dear Author:
Looking for Reflexivity and Other Hallmarks of Interpretive Research
Dvora Yanow
Strategic Chair in Meaning and Method
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
d.## email not listed ##
Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association
August 30th-September 3, 2006
46-24 Interpretive Methods in Practice, Saturday, Sep 2, 8:00 AM
Copyright by the American Political Science Association.
Abstract
Readers judge authors’ claims on the basis of ‘signaling devices’ written into
manuscripts. What ‘devices’ should authors of ethnographic and other
interpretive research manuscripts be including in their methods discussions?
By what criteria should reviewers and other readers of these manuscripts be
judging them? Such matters are usually engaged during the research design
phase, but there is reason to re-engage them at the end of a research
project from the perspective of the reader of the research report.
Turning a reflexive eye on my own participant-observer role as a reviewer of
such manuscripts, I have attempted to identify those elements of
interpretive methods that are, I posit, the sine qua non of such writing.
Their absence leaves me, as a reviewer, wondering about the character of
the evidence presented and how trustworthy the “truth claims” of the
research are; and so my hope is that this reflection might help authors of
such research write better – more cogently argued – manuscripts prior to
submitting them to journals. But I also hope this discussion will be useful to
editors and reviewers who may not themselves possess interpretive
methodological expertise and who may, therefore, not be aware that such
methods follow different evaluative criteria from those deriving from
quantitative-positivist methodologies.
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