Methods of Research and Intervention week 5

That the nature of social reality need to be examined carefully before it can be decided what the research should focus on and how it should be methodologically shaped.

Omdraaien

Popper's critical-rationalist view. It focuses mainly on the question of the meaning given by people to situations and events around them.

Omdraaien

It's not much concerned with ontological issues (regarding the nature of being) but rather with epistemological issues (knowlegde).

Omdraaien

Intentionality: direction of consciousness towards a particular thing. The phenomenologist focusses on the question of how people understand something and how that process takes place.

Omdraaien

Patterns, meanings
Holism
Interpreting, understanding
Few research units
Selective sampling (non-probability)
Open questions
Explorative rearch
Triangulation
Iterative-parallel

Omdraaien

Relations between variables
Analytical reduction
Counting and measuring, explaining
Many research units
Random sampling (probability-based)
Closed research questions
Theory testing
Multivariate statistics
Linear-serial

Omdraaien

The fact that people interpret the world around them. They try to understand by assigning meanings. Social sciences are not studying 'raw' data but just data. These constructs are therefore second order constructs: constructs of a world that has already been interpreted by the researchers.

Omdraaien

We take many things for granted
Our knowledge is socially shared knowledge

Omdraaien