CRCJ 3002 Lecture Notes - International Society For Justice Research, Qualitative Property, Content Analysis
19 Feb 2014
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What is qualitative research? (lecture 2: positivism. The restriction of philosophy to problems open to scientific methods. Naive realism: perception accurately portrays all objects and events in the world, one truth", goal of knowledge is simply to describe the phenomena that we experience. Dualist" approach- research and participants are completely independent from each other: must stay as far away from each other to maintain objectivity. Objectivity is a characteristic that resided in the individual scientist. Pure experiments: attempt to discern natural laws ***, post-positivism. Addresses criticisms made by various schools of thought, but preserves basic assumptions of positivism. The knower and known cannot be separated. As a researcher we can have an effect on our research. Reject the idea that any individual can see the world perfectly as it really is. Volunteer characteristics: volunteers are not necessarily a representative sample. Experimenter effects: the researcher could end up influencing the participant.
