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The quality of a general interpretive theory can be judged in terms of "whether we can attain . . . Systematic, integrative knowledge of human action of a kind from which we may derive more powerful interpretive accounts of action" (p. XVI). Collin (1985)
Interpretive theory grew out of a dis-satisfaction with post-positivist theories, when many scholars saw such theories as too general, too mechanical, and too detached to capture the intricacies, nuances, and complications of human interaction. Interpretive theorists seek an understanding of how we construct meaning-ful worlds through interaction and how we behave in those worlds we have created. -Miller
at the turn of the 20th century, many social thinkers were dissatisfied with the foundational grounds that began with Descartes in the Enlightenment and were continuing to be developed in classical positivist and logical positivist positions. These scholars, instead, believed that an understanding of social life must account for the subjective and personal meanings of individuals. - Miller
Theoretical foundations - hermeneutics, phenomenology, symbolic interactionism