W3 - Methods & Methodology Flashcards
(15 cards)
what is the diffenrce between methods and methodolgy?
what are the core components of qualitative approaches to research?
Ontology:
how we view the world
concerned with reality and truth seeking
e.g., what is existence, what is depression
Epistemology:
how we should investigate the world
concerned with the nature of knowledge and the methods of learning.
e.g., what do you know, how do you know it
Methodology:
how we should best collect data
Concerned with the method of data collection
e.g., empiricism, kaupapa Māori, interface research
Methods:
details of excatly how we collect data
describes how data was collected specifically
e.g., surveys, interviews, experiments, Research Methods
whata re the two types of ontology
objective and subjecyive ontology
objective ontology
reality exists independently of the knowledge and experience of it “third person perspective”
subjective ontology
reality only exists when we experience it and give meaning to it “first person perspective”
the types of epistemology
Empiricism
Positivism
Objectivity
Perspectivism
Collective Identity
the levels of science
- methodology
- research question
- methods
what does methodology =
Framework
what does method =
tools
Qualitative Research
can be both a method and a methodology
i.e., the tools and the framework or the leaves and the branches
10 Fundamentals of qualitative research
- its about meaning, not numbers
- doesnt provide a single answer
- treats contxt as impornant
- can be experientail or critical
- is underpinned by ontological assumptions
- is underpinned by epistemological assumptions
- involves a qualitative methadology
- uses all sorts of data
- involves ‘thinking qualitativley
10. values subjetivity and reflexivity - uses words
