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The epistemological foundations of quantitative research, Anderson Freire,…
The epistemological foundations of quantitative research
Epistemological foundations
Epistemological foundations
Philosophy of knowledge
Way how we come to know
Characterizes
Systematic investigation
Social phenomenon
Quantifiable data
Techniques - Methods
Mathematical
Computational
Statistical
Quantitative research approach
Bigger sample sizes
Study group
Reliability
Replicated, simulated or repeated
Numeric and invariable data
Optimum solution
World
Reality
Empirically determined
Positivism world view
Cause and consequence
Objective
Realist or positivist
Without the subjective influence
Researchers
Epistemology
Experiential realism
Perception influences
On what is observed
Limit to admit
Subjetivism
Science
Based on subject/object
Pragmatism
Mixed methods approach
Most suitable
Depending on needs
Type of questions
Meaning and truth
Practical outcome
Post-positivism
Researchers approximated
How to represent
Reality
Research
Never be certain
Epistemologies underlying theory and practice
Post-positivism
Observation
Fallible or imperfect
Inaccuracy
Science's objective
To get information
About reality
Observation assumed
Prior understanding
Other theories
Interpretivism
To interpret components
Human interest
Into a study
Reality
Through social constructions
To group approaches
Reveal characteristics
Do not accept the purely objectivist
Subjetivism
No external or objective truth
Mental activity
Unquestionable fact of experience
Research methods or philosophical view
Paradigms (patterns)
Ontologies (theories)
Epistemologies (philosophies)
Methodologies
Criticalism
Confronts
Knowledge foundations and methodologies
Goal
To change
Limiting social conditions
To defy power structures
Relating social sciences' and humanities
Positivism
Knowledge
Natural phenomena
Properties
Relations
Certainty or truth
Posteriori knowledge
Sensory experience
Reason and logic
Postmodernism
Context
Contextualized reality
Changeable culture
Cannot be conceived
The same
Subjective responses' importance
Different ways
To appreciate reality
Science
No objective
neither universal
Nor the “paradigm of all true knowledge
Not accepting
Rational findings
Quantitative vs Qualitative
Qualitative research
Subjectivist
Quantitative research
Being realist
Positivist
Anderson Freire
References:
Philosophical bases of research methods: An integrated narrative review (2014).
Recovered from:
https://www.academia.edu/32482303/Philosophical_bases_of_research_methods_An_integrated_narrative_review_E_D_I_T_O_R_I_A_L
Positivism Research Philosophy (2019).
Recovered from:
https://research-methodology.net/research-philosophy/positivism/
