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Schwester IGI Global. People are treated as meaning-producers, with the task of the investigator being to interpret meanings. Hermeneutic approaches, therefore, tend to use qualitative methods rather than measuring variables, taking group averages and drawing conclusions with the help of statistics as in experimental and other quantitative methods.
The data they produce tend to relate to particular individuals in specific contexts, rather than generalizing to a population as a whole. The different methods described above alert us to the fact that social scientific research is not just one enterprise, but a series of interlocking enterprises in which researchers have different views about the best ways to try to understand or explain people and their behavior and experience.
These are arguments about epistemology ; that is, what questions to ask, what sort of evidence to look for, what sort of criteria to use to evaluate explanations, and what sort of methods to use.
All knowledge and all efforts to gain knowledge operate in a context, a set of connected and compatible assumptions about what exists and the way to gain knowledge of it. And we have already seen that research is done within a paradigm, which is a philosophical framework made up of assumptions about the subject matter and the ways in which it should be studied, including the methods and the kinds of data that are considered to be legitimate. This leads to debates between social scientists operating in different paradigms, as Peter Barnes explains:.
At any one time some approaches are in the ascendant while others are in the doldrums. Different views exist on what subjects are worthy of investigation — and even on whether it is possible to investigate them — and these, too, have fashions. Barnes, P. Rosenhan, D. As such, it is also made available under the same licence agreement. Graham Williamson. Categories: Research Methodology. Related posts:. Hypothesis Testing. Some of our services can be accessed below. ThoughtHelper provides an automated analysis of cognitive distortions to help guide a cognitive restructuring process under the supervision of a therapist or as a self-help or training device to develop awareness of cognitive distortions.
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