Noblit and Hare [ 36] coined the term 'meta-ethnography' in 1988 and described this as a process involving the 'translation' of findings of one ethnographic study into the findings of the next to derive interpretive explanations and understanding.
While the development of descriptive themes remains 'close' to the primary studies, the analytical themes represent a stage of interpretation whereby the reviewers 'go beyond' the primary studies and generate new interpretive constructs, explanations or hypotheses.
For Weber, the commitment to methodological individualism is very closely related to the commitment to verstehende (or interpretive) patterns of explanation in sociology.
While recognizing the hybrid nature of social science as causal and interpretive, he sought explanations of particular phenomena that united both dimensions.
Thus, the negative Western blot result interpretation, even if caused by different local interpretive criteria, deserves further explanation.
Therefore explanation requires interpretive and qualitative research to discover actors' reasoning and circumstances in specific contexts not in abstraction from them (Sayer 2000).
It is achieved in various combinations of available explanations and interpretive stances.
This activity is experienced consciously as a subjective moral sense of right or wrong, and an interpretive process offers post hoc explanations designed to link the social stimulus with the subjective moral response using whatever explicit information is available.
Once again, a spokeswoman from each story circle shared the drawings and an explanation with the whole interpretive focus group, which often led to extended discussions.
