HLST 4200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Fallibilism, Social Group, Distant Star

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Within the realist framework, it is held that theory, rather than data or the methods used to produce that data, is central to explaining reality. This is fully consonant with the view developed in this text that it is the research questions which drive the design of a study, whether it be flexible or fixed. And that these questions have to be linked to theory, whether pre existing, which is tested by the research, or generated by the process of the research itself. Hence a realist view has no problems with flexible design research nor with the use of qualitative data. Flexible or qualitative methods have traditionally included the researcher and the relationship with the researched within the boundary of what is examined. Because all any study can do is to approximate knowledge of phenomena as they exist in the real world (fallibilism) the process of study itself must be studied as well.

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