KP290 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Regression Analysis, Marxist Philosophy, Thick Description
30 Sep 2016
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Health is both a personal trouble and a public issue: personal trouble. Researchers search to understand how disease affects individuals and their families: public issue. How history, culture, economics, and politics shape our capacities to lead healthy lives. Research paradigm: reflects one"s beliefs about what constitutes knowledge and how that knowledge is to be generated, 3 distinct dimensions: Epistemology: branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and definition of knowledge and truth, defines the types of data that are useful, 3 important epistemologies. Researchers study things that have characteristics that are independent of our perspective (ex: height, weight) Researchers study socially constructed phenomena (ex: masculinity, femininity) Methodology: approach to data collection and analysis, quantitative vs. qualitative. Positivism (measure: branch of epistemology that argues that valid knowledge and truth is generated through a scientific process based on observation/measurement and generalization, hard science , social science should be modeled after natural science, auguste comte.
