Research Methods Week 4


 

Paradigm

Paradigms emerge in the work of some key European philosophers, like Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim, during the mid-to-late 19th century.

Paradigm is a set of assumptions, theories, that contribute to your worldview or create the framework you operate every day. Which comprised of ideas and beliefs that form a framework of technique and participate with other things or people.

 

There are Three Type of Paradigm

01. Positivist

02. Constructivist

03. Critical

 

01. Positivist

The Positivist method mostly works with the observations and investigation used for collecting data. Moreover, the Positivist test is done by objective theories by analyzing measurable variables.

02. Constructivist

The Constructivists shows various explanation is possible cause we have multiple realities. The constructivists for reality are human mind production which expands socially. 

03. Critical

Critical theory is a combination of Social sciences and Philosophy which was recognized for in order to reveal movements and the weaknesses of the modernistic social structure.

This is another way that society works and it built on a set of ontological concepts. The main concern about this is finding the scope of social life.

 

References

Positivism-: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism

Constructivist-: https://research-methodology.net/research-philosophy/epistomology/constructivism/

Critical Theory -: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLVi8sHEkRs

 

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