⊿ Point. {R} Glossary. ◢ Keyword: I. ◥ University. {q} PhD. {tr} Training. ⚫ UK. ↂ EndNote. ☝️ Weerakkody. ✊ La (2004) ☝️ [BS] Heigham. Interpretation. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Interpretation may refer to: Culture[edit] Aesthetic interpretation, an explanation of the meaning of a work of artAllegorical interpretation, an approach that assumes a text should not be interpreted literallyDramatic Interpretation, an event in speech and forensics competitions in which participants perform excerpts from playsHeritage interpretation, communication about the nature and purpose of historical, natural, or cultural phenomenaInterpretation (music), the process of a performer deciding how to perform music that has been previously composedLanguage interpretation, the facilitation of dialogue between parties using different languagesLiterary theory, broad methods for interpreting literature, including historicism, feminism, structuralism, deconstruction Literary criticism, interpretation of particular works of literatureOral interpretation, a dramatic art Law[edit] Math and computing[edit] Media[edit] Neuroscience[edit] Philosophy[edit]
Antipositivism / Interpretivism. Antipositivism (also known as interpretivism or negativism) is the belief in social science that the social realm may not be subject to the same methods of investigation as the natural world; that academics must reject[need quotation to verify] empiricism[dubious ] and the scientific method in the conduct of social research. Antipositivists hold that researchers should focus on understanding the interpretations that social actions have for the people being studied.[1][need quotation to verify] Concept[edit] In the early 19th century various intellectuals, perhaps most notably the Hegelians, began to question the prospect of empirical social analysis.
Karl Marx died before the establishment of formal social science but nonetheless fiercely rejected Comtean sociological positivism—despite himself attempting to establish a historical materialist "science of society".[2] Frankfurt School[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Gerber, John J. Interpretivism / Antipositivism. Theoretical stance in social science In social science, antipositivism (also interpretivism, negativism or antinaturalism) is a theoretical stance which proposes that the social realm cannot be studied with the methods of investigation utilized within the natural sciences, and that investigation of the social realm requires a different epistemology.
Fundamental to that antipositivist epistemology is the belief that the concepts and language researchers use in their research shape their perceptions of the social world they are investigating and seeking to define.[1] History[edit] Beginning with Giambattista Vico, in the early eighteenth century, and later with Montesquieu, the study of natural history and human history were separate fields of intellectual enquiry. Natural history is not under human control, whereas human history is a human creation.
In the early nineteenth century, intellectuals, led by the Hegelians, questioned the prospect of empirical social analysis. See also[edit] Interpretivism.