<p>"[An] invaluable resource for anyone interested in these important debates over method and methodology, interpretive methodologies or interpretive/qualitative methods... should be commended for its diversity, depth and incredible scope."</p><p><em>Political Studies Review</em></p><p>Praise for the first edition edition</p><p>This is only a ‘‘methods’’ book in the sense that <em>Moby Dick</em> is a book about how to catch whales. Underneath Herman Melville’s descriptions of the proper way to throw a harpoon (data gathering) or how to cut up blubber (data analysis) is a deep meditation. So too with <em>Interpretation and Method</em>, an assemblage of reflections on the interpretive approach to social science. As one who regularly teaches a required doctoral seminar in the logic of inquiry, I can attest to the need for this book—if one is prepared to entertain the idea that there is more than one logic.</p><p><strong>Camilla Stivers</strong>, <em>Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory</em></p>