HLST 4200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Positivism, Social Reality, False Consciousness
11 Dec 2018
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Lecture 3: paradigms and methodologies in health research. Instrumental knowledge is developed through traditional scientific approaches. It is concerned with controlling physical and social environments. Interactive knowledge is derived from sharing lived experiences. It is concerned with understanding and the connections among human beings: critical knowledge is derived from reflection and action on what is right and just. It is concerned with raising consciousness about the causes of problems and means of alleviating them. Individualized (a larger problem: quantitative (a problem, non-normative (an even larger problem, de-politicized (a profound problem) Qualitative methods: reality exists inside individuals; there is no single reality, reality is holistic, reality is highly contextualized. September 24th (online: differences among individuals are more important than similarities, data emerges from the interaction of inquirer and participant, design is emergent and data are words and observations, the investigator is the instrument. How these paradigms shape the nature of research: poverty.
