Interpretivism with Prof Paul Lichterman

Описание: Qualitative and Fieldwork Working Group presents:

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Epistemology, Theory and Methods
Seminar I: Interpretivism with Prof Paul Lichterman

Recorded on 6th of October 2021

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Interpretivism: Ethnography, Causality and Theory Driven Participant Observation

In our first seminar of the fall semester we discuss the core tenets of the interpretivist perspective. In doing so, we look at whether and how ethnography and causality can work as complementary, not counterposed projects. Helping us with this philosophical endeavour is Prof Paul Lichterman from the University of Southern California who gave a short presentation on the matter based on the following reading:

Lichterman, P. and Reed, I. A. (2015) ‘Theory and Contrastive Explanation in Ethnography’, Sociological Methods & Research, 44(4), pp. 585–635.

Due to privacy concerns the latter part of the session is not published on YouTube.


Prof. Paul Lichterman is professor of sociology and religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author of the award-winning books Elusive Togetherness (Princeton), The Search for Political Community, and the coeditor of The Civic Life of American Religion.

The session was moderated by Mariusz Bogacki (PhD Researcher, Department of Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Florence)

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