Meaning and Interpretation in Research : Nuance, Objectivity and the Ethics of Reason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bedwei-Majdoub, Catherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qualitative research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hershey : IGI Global Scientific Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

Meaning and interpretation form the foundation of all research, shaping how knowledge is constructed, understood, and communicated. The process of research includes the ways in which researchers perceive, contextualize, and reason about their findings. Balancing nuance and objectivity require careful attention to the interplay between subjective insight and objective understanding. Within this balance lies ethical issues, demanding honesty, transparency, and respect for complexity. By engaging in these dimensions, research becomes a method for discovering knowledge and also a moral and intellectual practice grounded in thoughtful interpretation. Meaning and Interpretation in Research: Nuance, Objectivity and the Ethics of Reason explores the challenges and ethical imperatives of meaning and interpretation in research. It examines the dimensions of semantics and hermeneutics in text-based qualitative and quantitative research across multiple disciplines, offering a comprehensive discussion, critique, and defense of research methodologies that seek out truth and objectivity, and the data analysis methods in which text-based researchers situate their contributions to knowledge and their claims of research impact. This book covers topics such as philosophy, semantics, and social sciences, and is a useful resource for educators, sociologists, academicians, researchers, and scientists.

Contents:

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Detailed Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgement

Section 1: Consciousness and Intentionality

Chapter 1: Consciousness, Intentionality, and the Ethics of Meaning-Making in Qualitative Research

Section 2: Hermeneutics and Understanding

Chapter 2: The Ethics of Understanding

Chapter 3: Rethinking Nuance and Objectivity in Qualitative Research

Chapter 4: Exploring the Role of Lexical and Logical Semantics in Quantitative Research Within Business Management

Section 3: Ethics and Rationality

Chapter 5: Ethics, Power, and Data Validity in Management Education Research

Section 4: Pragmatism and Participatory Research

Chapter 6: Pragmatism as a Practical Philosophy

Chapter 7: Philosophical Considerations in Combining Mixed Methods and Participatory Action Research

Section 5: AI, Participation, and the Subject-Object Divide

Chapter 8: AI in the Creative Industries

Chapter 9: Participation and Ethical Reasoning in Text-Based Research

Section 6: Interdisciplinarity

Chapter 10: From Coordinates to Consciousness

Chapter 11: Poiesis and the Emergence of New Knowledge

Conclusion

Compilation of References

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-83-373-3812-5

OCLC:

1564843623