Positivism and Interpretivism
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- Created on: 20-03-24 16:54
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- Positivism and Interpretivism
- Positivism
- belief that there are social facts that can be studied objectively using methods that are similar to the natural sciences
- produce quantitative data of social patterns and trends which can be used to explain society
- social surveys, structured qs, comparative method and lab experiments
- structured interviews, non-p observation, official stats and content analysis
- Interpretivism
- implies that people are conscious of their personal beliefs, meanings, values and interpretations and these influence the way they act
- researcher attempts to gain an in-depth understanding of how people see and understand the world around them by putting themselves in the position of those studied
- must go beyond the empirical
- uncontrolled field experiments, open-ended qs, unstructured interviews, overt and covert p and non-p observation, personal accounts
- Positivism
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