EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH.
It comes from the Greek episteme and logo that means knowledge and study.
It is called the discipline whose object of study is knowledge.
The ways of conceiving the nature of knowledge and reality.
Qualitative current.
Positive current.
Difference between empirical, objective or material reality.
CREATED BY: JONATHAN FREIRE
Origins of knowledge.
Aristotle used the experimental deductive method that occurs through research.
Bacon proposes the inductive method where it is important for him to control nature by acquiring experiences.
Galileo takes the importance of mathematics to be able to analyze nature.
Kan a measures of the XVIII century proposes a priori and a posteriori trials.
It is classified by field.
Psychology, sociology, physics, history, economics.
The qualitative method.
it involves an open and flexible research design.
seeks to understand the whole.
use small but relevant samples.