CRCJ 3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Postpositivism, Deductive Reasoning, Positivism

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What is qualitative research= some of the ways we make knowledge that is rigorous and that is critical. We are creating knowledge as people all the time through the creation of symbols and language and we are using those to rep. our reality. Ie, when it was discovered young ppl were taking nude pictures of themselves, others tried to make sense of this. How we create knowledge is alway incomplete, things are always changing. We used to create knowledge from supernatural explanations or theology. then more philosophical, and finally we are creating knowledge through the scientific method. How we make sense of our world is socially constructed. Start from positivistic epistemological assumption (way of knowing) The world view that adopts the natural sciences belief that there is this objective reality outside that exists outside of our perceptions of those who observe that reality.

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