interpretivism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

interpretive +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

interpretivism (countable and uncountable, plural interpretivisms)

  1. antipositivism
  2. qualitative research
  3. A school of cultural anthropological thought founded by Franz Boas.
  4. (law) 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.

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