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Tom Butler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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towards a hermeneutic method for interpretive research in information systems
Journal of Information Technology, 1998Co-Authors: Tom ButlerAbstract:There is increasing interest in Hermeneutics as a research approach in the field of information systems. However, the problem facing researchers is that there is a paucity of information on the application of Hermeneutics for empirical research in the social sciences; indeed, there is very little guidance on what exactly constitutes a hermeneutic method for the investigation of social phenomena. In order to address this problem, this paper provides an overview of concepts and principles from the related philosophies of phenomenology and Hermeneutics; it then illustrates their application in an interpretive case study on the information systems development process. The insights obtained from the application of the hermeneutic method outlined in this paper have helped realize the study's objective of illustrating the link between phenomenological Hermeneutics and the conduct of interpretive research.
David L Rennie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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methodical Hermeneutics and humanistic psychology
The Humanistic Psychologist, 2007Co-Authors: David L RennieAbstract:Abstract In this article, it is argued that the engagement of Hermeneutics is common to both the creation of theory in humanistic psychology and the conduct of qualitative research. Development of their theories by Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers serve as examples of the tacit use of methodical Hermeneutics.With respect to qualitative research, the phenomenological psychological and grounded theory methods are connected with the concept of a human science approach to the social and health sciences, and are examined critically to expose the hermeneutic involvement in them. A call is put out for a meta-methodology of qualitative research based on the methodical type of Hermeneutics. Benefits of such a methodology are suggested, especially enhanced integration of the theory and research in humanistic psychology. 1Division 32 (Humanistic) Presidential Address under the title, Hermeneutics and Humanistic Psychology, given at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, August 2006.
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grounded theory methodology as methodical Hermeneutics reconciling realism and relativism
Psychologische Beiträge, 2001Co-Authors: David L RennieAbstract:The grounded theory method was developed by Glaser and Strauss (1967) as an alternative to what they saw as a predominantly rational approach to theorizing in sociology. Thus, rather than conceptualizing theory and then testing it with data, in the grounded theory method the conceptualization of theory is derived from data. Since its inception, it has been taken up by several disciplines in addition to sociology, including psychology (e.g., Pilowski, 1993; J. Watson & Rennie, 1994). Typically, the application of the method involves understanding the meaning of texts of various sorts, whether as notes of participant observation of social conduct, extant writings, or transcriptions of interviews. Glaser and Strauss have always maintained that a grounded theory is relative to the perspectives) of the persons) producing it, and that different sets of investigators working with the same information may derive alternative theories from it. In compensation, they have held that this perspectivism is acceptable so long as each theory is accountable to the information. Thus, relativism and realism have been acknowledged, but only tacitly. Recently, I have brought the realism and relativism intrinsic to the grounded theory method out into the open, and have challenged that neither Glaser's (1992) nor Strauss's (1987; Strauss & Corbin, 1990, 1994) current methodologies adequately address the tension between them. I have held that, in order for this tension to be reconciled with the subject matter addressed by the grounded theory method and with the procedures constituting the latter, it is necessary to view it as a form of Hermeneutics. Correspondingly, I have drawn upon phenomenology, C. S. Peirce's theory of inference, philosophical Hermeneutics and pragmatism in support of the notion that the grounded theory method amounts to a union of Hermeneutics and method, or methodical Hermeneutics (Rennie, 1998a, 1998b, 1999; cf. Corbin, 1998; Madill, Jordan & Shirley, 2000). Up to now, this methodical Hermeneutics has been only sketched. In the present article, I more fully develop the arguments for it. I begin by examining the nature of the subject matter typically addressed in a grounded theory analysis, and the way it is dealt with, as a way of teasing out how the method resolves to Hermeneutics. Within this examination, Continental philosophical thought is drawn upon to support the point that, as hermeneutical, the method addresses the tension between realism and relativism. I then turn to how induction is involved in the method. Here the application of C. S. Peirce's theory of inference is useful because Peirce worked out a way to support the claim that induction is self-correcting, which helps to make the grounded method sufficient unto itself rather than merely the first step in scientific inquiry. This outcome is in keeping with the intent of a hermeneutic analysis, which is to derive an understanding of the meaning of text -- an understanding that stands on its own. Moreover, as a pragmatist, Peirce held that knowledge production involves the perspectives of those engaged in it, which keeps in place the tension between realism and relativism. Thus, the presentation has several objectives. The immediate goal is to establish that the grounded theory method is indeed hermeneutical. The second purpose is to raise the possibility that, although it was not conceived as such, the method actually constitutes an improvement, in some respects, on earlier attempts to apply method to Hermeneutics. Integral to this second goal is a third intent, which is to challenge the philosophical hermeneutic critique that method holds little place in Hermeneutics. Fourth, a practical goal is to derive from the study a constructive contribution to the debate on the validity and reliability of the returns from a grounded theory inquiry. Finally, throughout, all of these objectives are organized by the attempt to reconcile the realism and relativism intrinsic to the method. …
Susan Adams - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On Ricœur’s Shift from a Hermeneutics of Culture to a Cultural Hermeneutics
Études Ricoeuriennes Ricoeur Studies, 2016Co-Authors: Susan AdamsAbstract:The essay’s argument is twofold: First, it contends that Ricœur’s articulation of the social imaginary in the Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (and other essays of that period), reveals a turn to a general theory of culture, which is best understood as a shift from a Hermeneutics of culture to a cultural Hermeneutics. This move forms part of his philosophical anthropology of “real social life.” The essay proposes it is epitomized in Ricœur’s changing reception of Cassirer. Second, the essay hermeneutically reconstructs the emergence of this turn in Ricœur’s intellectual trajectory, and, in so doing, contends that it is connected to a rearticulation of both the phenomenological reduction and the symbolic function that took place in the mid- to late 1960s. Ricœur’s developing response to the phenomenological problematic of the world horizon underlies these further phenomenological-hermeneutic considerations. The essay concludes with a brief sketch of Ricœur’s understanding of the symbolic mediation of action (in the Geertz lecture) as a reconfiguration of the hermeneutical actualization of phenomenological preconditions of the symbolic.
Scott Davidson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Is a Hermeneutic Phenomenology Wide Enough?: A Ricoeurian Reply to Janicaud's Phenomenology "Wide Open"
Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2014Co-Authors: Scott DavidsonAbstract:More than fifteen years have now passed since the publication of Dominique Janicaud's book Phenomenology “Wide Open”; however, many of its central claims still remain unexamined. This article initiates a critical reflection on Janicaud's notion of a minimal phenomenology by way of a contrast with Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology. The article demonstrates that Janicaud's attempt to decouple phenomenology from Hermeneutics fails due to his underestimation of their deeper connection. The notion of a minimal phenomenology remains valuable, nonetheless, for opening up some new directions for hermeneutic phenomenology, particularly an engagement with certain insights to be drawn from Deleuze.
David E Avison - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the potential of Hermeneutics in information systems research
European Journal of Information Systems, 2007Co-Authors: Melissa Cole, David E AvisonAbstract:This paper puts forward a case for using Hermeneutics in information systems (IS) research. Unlike case study and action research, which could now be described as ‘mainstream’ interpretive research in IS, Hermeneutics is neither well accepted nor much practiced in IS research. A suitable hermeneutic approach is described in detail. A brief account of Hermeneutics in action is provided through a description of research investigating notions of convenience in home Internet shopping. The hermeneutic circle enabled the researcher to reveal unexpectedly the practice of using surrogates in Internet shopping and this example illustrates some of the potential of the approach in IS research.
