Exam Prep Qrm Rug 2nd Year 2013
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Quanti and Quali Evaluation don’t always match.
Quantitative: Good for the Overview. Explanation (Hypotheses). Closed Q . Suitable for generalization.
Qualitative Research: Detail Research. Exploration, Generation. Open Q. Understanding/Motivation * Small Samples * Understanding people and their context * Close contact with participant * Detailed and rick data
Empiricism (Social Science): knowledge comes from our experiences and is derived through our senses. Looks for understanding of subjectively meaningful experiences. Quali Research
Positivism (Natural Science): Social world can be studied in terms of invariant (unveraenderlich) laws. Looks for law-like propositions. Quanti Research * Likes Natural Sciences for social studies * Only observable phenomena can be accounted as knowledge * K is developed inductively through the accumulation of verified facts * Hypotheses are derived deductively from scientific theories to be tested empirically
Interpretivism: K about world can be acquired in other ways than direct observation. INTERPRETATIONS. * Distinction between: Scientific reason casual determination & Practical reason moral freedom
Positivism has been on top but then it has been questioned, if it was possible to .. 1. control variables, 2. To eliminate contextual variables 3. Study social world in artificial environment? 4. Differently? Hypotheses right method ..? * Quali Research
Ontology: Science that tries to categorize everything
1 Realism: distinction b/w the way the world is and the meaning and interpretation of that world held by individuals
2. Materialism: Real world exists, but only material features in the world hold reality. values, beliefs or experiences do not shape the material world.
3. idealism: reality is only knowable thorough the human mind and through socially constructed meanings.
Epistemology: ways of knowing and learning about the world
Main issues:
Quanti and Quali Evaluation don’t always match.
Quantitative: Good for the Overview. Explanation (Hypotheses). Closed Q . Suitable for generalization.
Qualitative Research: Detail Research. Exploration, Generation. Open Q. Understanding/Motivation * Small Samples * Understanding people and their context * Close contact with participant * Detailed and rick data
Empiricism (Social Science): knowledge comes from our experiences and is derived through our senses. Looks for understanding of subjectively meaningful experiences. Quali Research
Positivism (Natural Science): Social world can be studied in terms of invariant (unveraenderlich) laws. Looks for law-like propositions. Quanti Research * Likes Natural Sciences for social studies * Only observable phenomena can be accounted as knowledge * K is developed inductively through the accumulation of verified facts * Hypotheses are derived deductively from scientific theories to be tested empirically
Interpretivism: K about world can be acquired in other ways than direct observation. INTERPRETATIONS. * Distinction between: Scientific reason casual determination & Practical reason moral freedom
Positivism has been on top but then it has been questioned, if it was possible to .. 1. control variables, 2. To eliminate contextual variables 3. Study social world in artificial environment? 4. Differently? Hypotheses right method ..? * Quali Research
Ontology: Science that tries to categorize everything
1 Realism: distinction b/w the way the world is and the meaning and interpretation of that world held by individuals
2. Materialism: Real world exists, but only material features in the world hold reality. values, beliefs or experiences do not shape the material world.
3. idealism: reality is only knowable thorough the human mind and through socially constructed meanings.
Epistemology: ways of knowing and learning about the world
Main issues: