1University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Qual Health Res. 2012 Mar;22(3):409-15. doi: 10.1177/1049732311421177. Epub 2011 Aug 29.
In this article I explore the relationship between symbolic interactionist theory and interpretive description methodology. The two are highly compatible, making symbolic interactionism an excellent theoretical framework for interpretive description studies. The pragmatism underlying interpretive description supports locating the methodology within this cross-disciplinary theory to make it more attractive to nonnursing researchers and expand its potential to address practice problems across the applied disciplines. The theory and method are so compatible that symbolic interactionism appears to be part of interpretive description's epistemological foundations. Interpretive description's theoretical roots have, to date, been identified only very generally in interpretivism and the philosophy of nursing. A more detailed examination of its symbolic interactionist heritage furthers the contextualization or forestructuring of the methodology to meet one of its own requirements for credibility.
在本文中，我探讨了符号互动理论与阐释描述方法学之间的关系。这两者高度兼容，使得符号互动主义成为阐释描述研究的极佳理论框架。阐释描述所基于的实用主义支持将该方法学定位于这种跨学科理论中，以使它对非护理研究人员更具吸引力，并扩大其解决应用学科中实践问题的潜力。理论与方法如此兼容，以至于符号互动主义似乎是阐释描述认识论基础的一部分。到目前为止，阐释描述的理论根源仅在诠释主义和护理哲学中被非常笼统地确定。更详细地考察其符号互动主义遗产，可以进一步使该方法学的情境化或预先结构化，以满足其自身可信性要求之一。
