[Xmca-l] Re: The Science of Qualitative Research 2ed

[James Ma]

Hello Martin, I'm inclined to think that hermeneutics would be a best
approach to the being (dasein) of being human since there's no exactness
but fluidity and uncertainty of "thrownness".
James

On 18 December 2017 at 01:12, Martin John Packer <mpacker@uniandes.edu.co>
wrote:

> Hello James. Well, it isn’t. But it ought to be!  :)
>
> Martin
>
> > On Dec 17, 2017, at 4:15 PM, James Ma <jamesma320@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Martin, I agree with you entirely - social science is the science
> of
> > interpretation centring around the hermeneutic phenomenology of being
> human
> > - which chimes with post-positivism. James
> >
> > On 16 December 2017 at 22:19, Martin John Packer <
> mpacker@uniandes.edu.co>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Cambridge University Press, in their infinite wisdom, have just
> published
> >> an expanded second edition of my book The Science of Qualitative
> Research.
> >> It will be a perfect holiday gift for a loved one!  :)
> >>
> >> The book continues to make the case that a common view of qualitative
> >> research — that it amounts to a set of techniques for describing
> people’s
> >> subjective experience — is mistaken. I propose that in fact qualitative
> >> research can take us beyond the taken for granted ontological dualisms
> of
> >> subjectivity/objectivity, mind/world, and appearance/reality. Human
> beings
> >> have created the worlds, the cultures, in which we live, and we are
> >> products of these worlds. Qualitative research can be the study of the
> >> ‘ontological complicity’ that people have with the social reality in
> which
> >> they live, and the ‘constitution’ in which specific ways of being human
> are
> >> formed. The constituents of qualitative research — and in the book I
> focus
> >> on three: interviews, analysis of interaction, and ethnographic field
> work
> >> — can be combined and aligned to focus on ontology, in a scientific
> study
> >> of the constitution of human beings. This science is centrally a matter
> of
> >> interpretation, of hermeneutics, not of coding.
> >>
> >> The new material includes a discussion of the centrality of constitution
> >> (not only causation) in every scientific discipline -- think of Watson
> and
> >> Crick discovering how DNA is constituted -- in Chapter 1. Discussion of
> >> Bruno Latour’s work has been included in several chapters: there are
> >> treatments of his book Laboratory Life, of actor-network theory, and of
> his
> >> Inquiry into Modes of Existence.
> >>
> >> In addition, a new final chapter presents as an example and case study
> the
> >> research conducted by Löic Wacquant with boxers in south Chicago.
> Wacquant
> >> joined the gym, learned to box, and came to be on familiar terms with
> the
> >> men who were becoming constituted as boxers. His ethnographic fieldwork
> >> focused on the bodily practices of the boxing life, while his interviews
> >> illustrated how the boxer’s ontological complicity with this life
> builds a
> >> way of understanding the gym, and the body. Wacquant helps us to see the
> >> ideals and morality that are inherent in a boxer’s way of human being,
> of
> >> being human. His research illustrates the potential of qualitative
> research
> >> to enable us to recognize the diverse ways in which people make
> themselves
> >> into particular kinds of person, so we can better understand the ethical
> >> freedom that is key to being human. This, in my view, is what makes this
> >> kind of scientific investigation both exciting and important.
> >>
> >> CUP:
> >> <http://www.cambridge.org/co/academic/subjects/social-
> >> science-research-methods/qualitative-methods/science-
> >> qualitative-research-2nd-edition?format=HB&isbn=9781108404501>
> >>
> >> Amazon:
> >> <https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=
> >> qs&keywords=9781108417129>
> >>
> >> Facebook author’s page:
> >> <https://www.facebook.com/pg/The-Science-of-Qualitative-
> >> Research-2e-1851273521851365/posts/?ref=page_internal>
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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