SW 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Michael Williams (Geographer), Empiricism, Feminist Theory
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Qualitative data: data that contain words, diagrams, illustrations, pictures, and stories. Basically discards the positivistic notion that here is only one external reality waiting to: reality is defined by the research participants" interpretations of their own. Subjective reality that is studied here rather than the objective one studied by the. Empiricism: the belief that science must be founded on observations and measurements: a tenet of positivism that is discarded here. Some data collection methods for subjective data: positivistic, interpretive be discovered realities positivistic approach, interviews, participant observation, secondary text data, historical data. Both approaches to the research method produce data: positivistic data = observations/measurements, interpretive data = interviews, etc. Pair bond publications, llc: information is something you hope to get by analyzing data, information is how you interpret the facts. The interpretation of facts depends on one"s individual reality. Information is nothing more than the subjective interpretation of objective facts.
