interpretivism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From interpretive + -ism.
Noun
[edit]interpretivism (countable and uncountable, plural interpretivisms)
- antipositivism
- qualitative research
- A school of cultural anthropological thought founded by Franz Boas.
- (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.