English Explanatory Dictionary

interpretivism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. antipositivism
  2. qualitative research
  3. A school of cultural anthropological thought founded by Franz Boas.
  4. A school of thought holding that law is not a set of given data, conventions, or physical facts, but what lawyers aim to construct or obtain in their practice.

Word forms

interpretivism interpretivisms

Etymology

From interpretive + -ism.

Related words

interpretivist interpretivistic
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