Lecture 6

Question 1

What is Vestehen?

Answer 1

Understanding the meaning off the research subject.

Question 2

What is the Hermeneutic method?

Answer 2

understanding people based on the textm trough thoughts, feelings, motives, lives, experiences, culture, histrorical traditions.

Question 3

What is Dilthey hermeneutic theory?

Answer 3

That social scientists explains nature, but understands the life of the soul (mental life).

This is achieved bt working from a insiders perspetive. Trying to empathize and being in someone else their shoes.

Question 4

Can interpretation be objective according to Dilthey?

Answer 4

Yes, with hard work.

Question 5

Can interpretation be objective according to later Hermeneutic philoophers

Answer 5

It is inevitable that you bring your own concepts of the world. There is always an element of subjectivity

Question 6

How do philosophical ideas connect to contemporary social sciences?

Answer 6

It resulted in qualitative research methods

Question 7

What is Anti-realism?

Answer 7

Part of the data is fiction; it is what it is. Influence of reh research is unenviable. However, what the point of research then?

Question 8

What is the middle course?

Answer 8

; qualitative methods produce evidence about how people (including the research) interact with each other. Creating a co-creation of the subject.

Question 9

What are the two ways to achieve a middle course?

Answer 9

• Reflexivity
• Full disclosure

Question 10

What is reflexivity?

Answer 10

Making the researcher perspective explicit.

Question 11

How is reflexivity achieved?

Answer 11

By bracketing: Identify your own background belief, and then filter this out in the research.

Question 12

What is a problem of bracketing?

Answer 12

• How reliable are researcher to do this? How do you know your own biases? Its hard to know this, there ore often blind spots.

But when you think you fully understand this, doesn’t this presuppose the kind of authenticity again?

Question 13

What is full disclosure?

Answer 13

Being explicit about it. Self-conscious writing on your background, opinions.
 But…

Question 14

What is full disclosure?

Answer 14

Being explicit about it. Self-conscious writing on your background, opinions.

Question 15

How do you explain irrational results?

Answer 15

By the Asymmentry thesis. A special explanation to make clear that these people think differently.

Question 16

What is the problem of the asymentry thesis?

Answer 16

Theory of Peter winch, when we think there is something wrong, irrational. Then it’s our problem. It is a perception of the research that is wrong. Maybe we should find a clarification that something is wrong with our method. Or explaining why they see it different then labeling it wrong.

Question 17

What is Cultural relativism?

Answer 17

A respond to the Asymmentry thesis. o Truth and rationality are relative to cultures.
o Leads to incommensurability= no way of telling which culture is right