Research Questions and Paradigms Flashcards
What is a paradigm?
An explanation of how the world can be understood, can be personal, individual, or shared.
Objective reality is?
The statements or facts about the world where the truth does not depend on anyones personal perspective.
Subjective information is…
closer to an appraisal than a fact.
What is positivism?
Based on perspective where we see reality as externally real, something is outside of ourselves.
What is logical positivism?
An extension of positivism, making the argument that only statements that are potentially verifiable (through evidence) have any meaning.
Explain Interpretive paradigm
This holds the idea that reality is subjective, that no single objectiv reality exists.
Describe Etic
Etic is about viewing or understanding the person being researched from our own perspective, i.e sense of a culture.
What is Emic?
When the person being researched is viewed from within, from their own perspective.
Explain Ontology
This is about existence and what is real, what exists and what is not real so therefore doesnt exist.
What is Epistemology
This is about knowledge, how we know whats true and not true
Briefly interpret Postmodernism
It tries to reject the concept that science always leads to social progress, it opposes positivism and its technological spinoffs that are suppose to improve QOL.
What is Relativism?
This argues that truth depends on the individual, social or cultural perspective. The rejection of absolute or objective truth.
Expand on Critical Paradigm
This allows for both an objective, external reality along with a subjective, internal reality. Accordingly, our subjective internal reality is a manipulated version of objective reality.
