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Thursday, September 16, 2010

The Challenges of Terminology

No wonder we've been having trouble operationally defining many key words: every five or ten years a new study comes out, critiquing the way some fundamental concept is understood. I'm all for nuance, but how are we supposed to be able to nail the Jello to the wall?
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  1. prp4lrSeptember 21, 2010 at 10:40 AM

    LR>>Not sure what happened to comment last week that included these suggestions for getting you started on the intervention/prevention theme...

    Start w/Berkman and move to 2004 article by Howe. The fact is one can think of prevention/intervention as social engineering, though we tend toward the 'interpretive' end of the scale.

    Berkman, Lisa F. 2009. Social Epidemiology: Social Determinants of Health in the United States: Are We Losing Ground? Annual Review of Public Health 30, no. 1 (4): 27-41. doi:10.1146/annurev.publhealth.031308.100310.


    Howe, Kenneth R. 2004. A Critique of Experimentalism. Qualitative Inquiry 10, no. 1 (February 1): 42-61. doi:10.1177/1077800403259491.

    Howe, Kenneth R. 1998. The Interpretive Turn and the New Debate in Education. Educational Researcher 27, no. 8 (November): 13-20.

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