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Week 1 (Ch 1, 2, 3) (QR as a paradigm (multiple versions of reality…

- - - - reality dependent on the ways we come to know it
    - - a pre-social reality exists but we can only ever partially know it
    - - a pre-social reality exists that we can access through research
  - - - knowledge is constructed; comes from discourses and systems that we reside within (diff context); no underlying realities that provide foundation for true knowledge; KNOWLEDGE= SOCIAL ARTIFACTS (social, cultural, moral, ideological, political)
    - - knowledge emerges from contexts; knowledge is valid in certain contexts and there is no single method to get to the truth; no single reality
    - - straightforward relationship btwn the world and our knowledge; observations and objectivity can lead to truths
      - post-positivism: searches for truth but researchers are influenced by their contexts
  - - - functional: critically reflecting on the knowledge we produce and our role in its production
      - personal: how assumptions shape knowledge produced; quality control
- - - - critisism: data could be made up; anything goes
  - - - organizing and interpreting with participant's expressed framework (from data)
    - - representation and constructions
        
        texts taken apart/ hidden assumptions
      - language practices (proplr use language that infers how they construct reality
- - - - beliefs, assumptions, values, practices shared by the research community