Handbook Interpretative Research

Interpretative social research is firmly established in the German-speaking research landscape. In the last two decades, new theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches have emerged in response to social and scientific developments: Globalization, the knowledge society, computerization, visualization of communication, digitalization and net media, economization, pluralization of cultural and religious orders, intertwining of sociality and culture. Older and newer approaches try to keep up with these developments. In doing so, there is - in line with the matter at hand - an increased connection of social and cultural science perspectives within the social sciences. So far, however, there has been no attempt to present the overarching commonalities of the established and newer approaches, to compare them in their methodisc.