Generalities: Epistemological Foundations of Quantitative Research

Generalities: Epistemological Foundations of Quantitative Research

Positivism

Natural Phenomena

Properties

Relations

Reason & Logic

Posteriori knowledge

Subjectivism

Subjective Experience

Patterns

Theories

Philosophies

Methodologies

Post-Positivism

Critical Realism

Revisable

Measurement is Imperfect

Triangulation

Prior Understanding

other theories and concepts

Postmodernism

Culture is changeable

Appreciate reality

Rational findings

Multiple epistemologies

Not objective knowledge

Criticalism

Predictable knowledge

Scientific objectivity

Change limiting social conditions

Social sciences and the humanities

Philosophical research

Interpretivism

Components of the study

Social Constructions

Group different approaches

Characteristics of the study

Characterize people