SOCI 2001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Thomas Kuhn, Frankfurt School
8 Sep 2017
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Ex: we have a group of women labeled group a and other one is group b. Group b students do not talk about these issues vvery much. Dimensions of qualitative research: paradigm introduced by thomas kuhn. It is a scientific community by arguing that the practice of science is usually characterized by a particular way of thinking. All knowledge is filtered through a paradigm or a set of paradigms currently dominated within a particular discipline or field. The conscious and unconscious questions, assumptions and beliefs that the researcher brings to the research endeavor serves the initial basis for an ontological position: there are 3 major ontological positions in qualitative research: Positivism posits that the social world is patterned and casual relationships can be discovered and tested via reliable strategies. Interpretative position assumes that the social world is constantly being constructed through group interactions and thus social reality is constantly being constructed through group interactions.
