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The epistemological foundations of quantitative research - Coggle Diagram
The epistemological foundations of quantitative research
The term epistemology comes from the Greek word epistêmê, to define knowledge.
It is important to recognize, in general terms, that all research work
Thus, epistemology is the philosophy of knowledge or the way in which we come to know.
The focus here, considering the type of information sought, is on quantitative research and its epistemological foundations.
Subject related to a social phenomenon
Specific research methodology
By collecting quantifiable data and using statistical techniques
The world is seen as a reality that can be empirically determined.
His vision is also known to be objective
Realistic or positivist as it is based on research conducted without the subjective influence of the researchers.
Stresses that any phenomenon occurring in the world has its cause and consequence.
Positivism
It is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relationships.
Information derived from sensory experience
Valid knowledge (certainty or truth) is found only in this a posteriori knowledge.
Subjectivism
Subjectivism gives primacy to subjective experience as fundamental to all measurement and law.
"our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience."
It is more accurate to investigate without taking both worldviews to the extreme.
Postmodernism
He rejects the idea that science can be considered objective.
It is not the "paradigm of all true knowledge".
There is no approved criterion on how to match "quantitative research" and "qualitative research".
Criticalism
Confronts those foundations and methodologies of predictable knowledge
They make claims of scientific objectivity.
The origins of philosophical research are to be found in sociology and also in literary criticism.
Interpretivism
Researchers can interpret the components of the study
He has a strong critical stance towards the positivism underlying qualitative analysis over quantitative analysis.
It is used "to group different approaches".
Post-positivism
There is a reality independent of our thinking about which science can study.
These researchers criticize "our ability to know reality with certainty."
"Prior understanding of other theories and concepts".