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Monday, January 16, 2017

Unit 2 Major Philosophical Debates in Research

WilliamsonChp2.pdf page 25-27

Research

  • Deductive - Positivist = quantitative
  • Inductive - interpretivist = qualitative (naturalistic inquiry, constructivism and phenomenology)


many researchers feel combined approaches are acceptable and even desirable.

Design should be matched to the questions to be investigated.
Triangulation popular approach enables checking of findings by different collection methods.

Reasoning Styles
  • Deductive - Positivist = quantitative
  • Inductive - interpretivist = qualitative (naturalistic inquiry, constructivism and phenomenology)




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