benefits and drawbacks of interpretivism and positivism
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- Created on: 22-01-20 09:46
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- benefits and drawbacks of positivist and interpretivist research
- Positivism
- it relies on quantitative data that positivists believe is more reliable than qualitative as it is more scientific
- it provides objective information which is seen as more trustworthy, feelings and emotions are bypassed.
- Positivism follows a set structure with rules, they believe this leaves minimum room for error
- positivism disregards human behaviour and emotions, however this is not always possible as it is inseparable with human interaction
- positivists are inflexible in their research and they disregard the concept of lateral thinking, which is coming up with creative and indirect explanations, but solely thinking objectively
- it relies on quantitative data that positivists believe is more reliable than qualitative as it is more scientific
- Interpretivism
- a subjective method of research that uses qualitative data
- this creates a strong relationship with the participant with achieves verstehen, this causes high validity because of strong rapport
- individual participant reports cannot be generalisable and will not be representative to large groups
- there is also a lack of reliability as participants may hold back on sensitive information for fear of being exposed to authorities, embarrassment etc.
- a subjective method of research that uses qualitative data
- Positivism
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