Sunday, May 20, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
Post-Positivism and Social Science.
In
the social sciences, the selection of research design and its constituent
elements is an important phase of the research process. The choice of research design is subject to a
number of theoretical and methodological considerations. Within the
discipline of sociology, there exists a high level of theoretical and
methodological pluralism with competing approaches to the study of society
being pursued simultaneously which often gives rise to contention and
contestation over the relative value of approaches. While quantitative research
has relatively well-established principles of evaluation, appraisal of qualitative
research is highly contentious. Carter and Little (2007) have suggested that
consistency of research design is an important criterion via which to evaluate qualitative
research: epistemology, methodology and
methods have to be internally consistent in order to form a solid research
design. Adoption of a particular epistemological stance can affect researcher’s
methodological choices, as some forms of epistemology are inconsistent with
certain methodologies. In view of this problem
and to demonstrate the logic of research design, the constituent parts of
epistemology, theory, methodology and methods will be given further exposition
and organized via the principles of post-positivist epistemology into a
consistent model of research design.
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