PS398 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Data Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Pragmaticism
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Assume a dynamic reality can only be captured with intensive engagement. Bricolage: a pieced-together, tightly woven whole greater than the sum of its parts. Both are systematic qual is neither unfocused nor prescriptive. Rose out of concern towards value-free objectivity" and verifiable reality" of positivism. Constructivism: human phenomena are socially constructed rather than objectively real". Questions what is meant by race", gender", deviance, and mental illness. Critical approach i. e. feminist, marxist, race, and queer theories. Point to inequalities based on gender, race, social class, sexual orientation as hidden subtexts of much of the knowledge produced by. Identified qualitative methods as the key to the flaws and reductionism of positivism. Accept the fallibility of knowledge: utility over philosophy, can be a number of cases where reality is either accepted, a presumed reality is obviously accepted, and when multiple subjective meanings can produce a broader understanding of something.
