HLTHAGE 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Antipositivism, Critical Inquiry, Structured Interview
21 Oct 2016
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Epistemology: is the theory of knowledge or set of assumptions about how we know the world, implications for social science research . Paradigms: why care: informs underlying assumptions about theories, in uences explanations that we create to understand observed social behaviour, in uences research interest/research design/what we call people who partake in research, important for assessing the merits/failures of research. Dominant paradigms in social science: positivism, anti-positivism, interpretivism, constructionism, critical inquiry. Positivism: assumptions about reality: reality exists out-there (e. g. , pen, reality is independent of our perceptions of it (e. g. , chair, reality is de nite in form (e. g. , cells, life satisfaction, subjective analyses are excluded. In most ways my life is close to my ideal. 1: the conditions of my life are excellent. 3: so far i have gotten the important things i want in life. If i could live life over, i would change almost nothing. 5: high score = higher life satisfaction.
