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Hermeneutics and qualitative research: historical roots and contemporary relevance
Some ideas from the hermeneutic philosophers Friedrich Schleiermacher, Wilhelm Dilthey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, the hermeneutic sociologist and philosopher of science Max Weber are discussed insofar as their ideas have influenced and are still relevant to qualitative methodology. Remarkably, hermeneutics and phenomenology are nowadays fruitfully combined within qualitative inquiry.