interpretivism
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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.