CS235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thomas Kuhn, Ethnography, Social Constructionism
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There are 2 basic paradigms of research inquiry into particular phenomenon naturalism and. Paradigm come from the greek paradeigma, which means pattern, example, sample". In rhetoric, a paradigm is known as a type of proof, or a way of reasoning or arguing. Outside of the paradigm is noise", inside is order/reason". Practice of shaping the world around us the is comprehendible. Conscience and deliberate notions of making sense" of the world. In the philosophy of (social) sciences, thomas kuhn defined a paradigm as the set of concepts and practices that define scientific discipline. What is to be observed and scrutinized. The kind of questions that are supposed to be asked and probed for answers in relation to what we. How these questions is to be conducted, and wha t these methods are available to conduct the. How the results of research should be interpreted. Both the naturalist and interpretivist paradigms of social science research are comprised of 3.
