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Not sure this is the right place in the forum for this, but after the Digital Gardens and Toolboxes session you asked us to share 1–3 structure notes (SNs).

This is the first of (likely) two SNs; both are works in progress. This SN relates to processing a particular book chapter which I find an important reference point to return to.

20240802-151105 Schwandt’s Three Epistemological Stances

tags: #schwandt-t-2000 #Hermeneutics #SocialConstructionism #Interpretivism #Phronesis #Narrative

Orientation

  • Provides map of Interpretivism, Hermeneutics, and Social Constructionism
  • Text: [schwandt-t-2000-three epistemological stances]

  • Ref: Schwandt, Thomas A. ‘Three Epistemological Stances for Qualitative Inquiry: Interpretitivism, Hermeneutics and Social Constructionism’. In Handbook of Qualitative Research, edited by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, 2nd ed., 189–213. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 2000.

    • { | Schwandt, et al., 2000 | | |zu:4247823:WN8RHAYY}

  • LitNote: [20240722-174642 Ü1 schwandt-t-2000-three epistemological stances]

  • seven references for Charles Taylor, five for Gadamer

Takeaways

Interpretivism

  • 192a: 'lies at the heart of what is known as objectivist or conservative hermeneutics (e.g., Hirsch, 1976).'

Philosophical Hermeneutics pp. 194–196

  • note 15.p. 208: [Phronesis] (allo eidos gnoseos, that “other form of cognition”) requires “responsive­ness, flexibility, and perceptiveness in discerning what is needed” and sharply contrasts to the form of practical knowledge called techne (Dunne, 1993, p. 56). Gadamer connects understanding, interpretation, and application by modeling the activity of understanding on the notion of phronesis and by modeling the theory of understanding (hermeneutics) on practical philosophy (Bernstein, 1983, pp. 114-150; Dunne, 1993, pp. 154ff.; Gadamer, 1981). [20240723-171830 Ü2 Phronesis]

Social Constructionism

  • 197a7 constructivism: 'human beings do not find or discover knowledge so much as we construct or make it [...] against a backdrop of shared understandings, practices, language', etc.

    • also called perspectivism

  • 198b3 General assumption: knowledge is 'ideological, political, and permeated with values (Rouse, 1996)’.

  • 198b6: ‘weak’ form preserves 'some way of distinguishing better or worse interpretations.'
    • strong form ‘results in a more radically skeptical and even nihilistic stance.'

Strong Holists

  • 201b0 strong holists argue that from the fact that we always see (make sense of, know) everything through interpreta­ tion, we must conclude that everything in fact is constituted by interpretation.
  • 201b6: Latour listed among the ‘radical so­cial constructionists engaged in the social studies of science’.
  • 202b4 ‘rel­ativistic, suspicious (or, worse, nihilistic)'

Understanding

  • 'less as something that is at our disposal for us subsequently to do something with by “applying” it and more as participation in meaning, in a tradition, and ul­timately in a dialogue (Grondin, 1994)'.

Branches

Hermeneutics [20240723-174659 Ü2 Hermeneutics]

Interpretivism

Social Constructionism [20240722-172021 Ü2 Social Constructionism]

  • [lock-strong-2010-social constructionism.pdf]
    • Full of potential overlap: Vico, phenomenology, hermeneutics, Bakhtin, Mead, Goffman, Giddens, Taylor, Foucault, Discourse Analysis etc.

Metaphors

  • None

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