interpretivism

English

Etymology

interpretive +‎ -ism

Noun

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.

Related terms

• interpretivist
• interpretivistic