Scholarly Reflexivity, Methodological Practice, and Bevir and Blakely's Anti-Naturalism

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2019-10-02 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2019.1708563

Peregrine Schwartz-Shea

引用次数: 6

Abstract

ABSTRACT Interpretive social science consists of researchers’ interpretations of actors’ interpretations. Bevir and Blakely’s anti-naturalist approach truncates this double hermeneutic, neglecting how researcher identity affects knowledge-making. Moreover, by disappearing methodology and treating methods as neutral tools, the authors miss the significance of methodological practice. In their treatment, an anti-naturalist philosophy is sufficient to produce high-quality interpretive research, even when the methods used are those of large-N statistics or other variables-based approaches. Unfortunately, then, the book is unlikely to create more space for research alternatives to the naturalism that the authors seek to unseat.

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学术反思，方法论实践，以及贝维尔和布雷克利的反自然主义

摘要解释性社会科学包括研究者对行动者解释的解释。贝维尔和布莱克利的反自然主义方法截断了这种双重解释学，忽视了研究者身份如何影响知识创造。此外，由于方法论的消失和将方法视为中性工具，作者错过了方法论实践的意义。在他们的治疗中，反自然主义哲学足以产生高质量的解释性研究，即使使用的方法是大N统计学或其他基于变量的方法。不幸的是，这本书不太可能为作者试图推翻的自然主义之外的研究创造更多的空间。

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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