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Epistemological Foundations of Quantitative Research - Coggle Diagram
Epistemological Foundations of Quantitative Research
Epistemological foundations of quantitative resarch
The term epistemology comes from the Greek word epistêmê, to define knowledge.
Epistemology is the philosophy of knowledge or of the way how we come to know.
Quantitative research characterizes for being a systematic investigation of a topic related to a social phenomenon and a specific research methodology
Using statistical, mathematical or computational techniques to analyze the information collected in order to test if a hypothesis of study proposed is true or not.
According to the view of quantitative research, the world is seen as reality that can be empirically determined.
In accordance to researchers who identify with post-positivism, not only theories, experience, knowledge, but also their own values can influence what is observed.
Post-positivists consider that research can never be certain, and that researchers should approximate that reality as best as they can.
The second epistemology, known as Experiential realism claims that it is not possible to observe the world from an objective way only.
Epistemologies underlying theory and practice
POST-POSITIVISM
According to post-positivism, a philosophy called critical realism; there is a reality independent of our thinking about which science can study.
INTERPRETIVISM
Interpretivism, whose focus is on meaning, is used “to group different approaches” to reveal different characteristics of the issue of study.
SUBJECTIVISM
Is the doctrine that "our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience", instead of shared or communal, and that there is no external or objective truth.
CRITICALIMS
Criticalism, confronts those predictable knowledge foundations and methodologies whether quantitative or qualitative that make affirmations of scientific objectivity.
POSITIVISM
It holds that society, like the physical world, operates according to general laws.
POST-MODERNISM
According to postmodernism, there is not probability for having objective knowledge. It underlines the importance of subjective responses of people and communities.
The quantitative view is described as being ‘realist’ or occasionally ‘positivist’, while the worldview underlying qualitative research is seen as being ‘subjectivist’.
