[Interpretationandmethods] Article of interest

[Ed Schatz]

Dvora,

Interesting premise for a workshop, but the article left open what is meant
by "legitimation crisis." After all, legitimacy implies a community which
lends/withholds its support, but we don't know what the relevant community
is. If it's anthropologists, I suspect there's no legitimation crisis;
perhaps the opposite is true-that statistical approaches experience such a
crisis. If it's political science, there's something like a crisis (though
that may be too strong, given some headway made by Dvora and others.)

 

One other possibility (and something that I am grappling with) is that
qualitative methods generally have a harder time speaking relevance to
power. Thus, it could be that policymakers tend to appreciate the policy
significance of research if it's couched in quantitative terms. If this is
the case (as I suspect it may be for many, though clearly not all), then the
legitimation crisis is rooted in broader aspects of bureaucracy, modernity,
etc., as they manifest themselves in modern states. That would be a much
bigger crisis, and one harder to contend with.

 

OK, back to writing lectures!

Ed

 

 

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Dvora Yanow
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Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Article of interest

 

Colleagues, 

 

May I call your attention to this article:

 

Is There a "Legimitation Crisis" in Qualitative Methods? by Shalva Weil

The link is:

 

http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-08/08-2-6-e.htm

 

from the December 2007 issue of 

 

FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627)
English ->  <http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm>
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm
German ->  <http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm>
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm
Spanish ->  <http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s.htm>
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s.htm

 

 

 

Dvora Yanow

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