Interpretivism
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Interpretivism may refer to:
- Interpretivism - in Cultural Anthropology, the view that cultures can be understood by studying what people think about, their ideas, and the meanings that are important to them. Franz Boas is the founder of this particular school of anthropological thought.
- Interpretivism - in Ontology, the view that all knowledge is a matter of interpretation.
- Intepretivism - a sociological tradition, also known as interactionism.
- Legal interpretivism - school of thought in contemporary jurisprudence and the philosophy of law, in which law is not considered to be a set of given data, conventions or physical facts, but what lawyers aim to construct or obtain in their practice.