Qualitative Lecture 1

Question 1

ontological

Answer 1

what is the nature of reality

Question 2

epistemological

Answer 2

what is the nature of our knowledge of things/reality and what is the relationship between the knowledgeable/what we can learn and what can be known

Question 3

methodological

Answer 3

how can one acquire knowledge

Question 4

positivism

Answer 4

philosophy in which people believe the goal of knowledge is only to describe what people experience, and that science should only study that which is measurable. Anything that is not measurable or experienced is irrelevant.

Question 5

interpretative/constructivist

Answer 5

focuses on understanding how people build their social world, define situations and act. more subjective

Question 6

Ethnography

Answer 6

purpose is to study and analyse a group of people

Question 7

Phenomenology

Answer 7

focus is what people experience about a phenomenon and how they interpret the experiences

Question 8

Ethnomethodology

Answer 8

tries to find out how people understand their everyday activities and interpret their social environment to behave in socially acceptable ways