Ways to Be Understood: The Ontological Turn and Interpretive Social Science.
The ontological turn in anthropological methodology, at least in its conceptualization-oriented formulation, aims to turn away from the concepts and objects found within one's own social setting in order to turn to indigenous conceptualization processes and take a look at "the things (and persons) t...
| Published in: | Philosophy of the Social Sciences Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 565 - 586 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Dec2020
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