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Deductive and inductive theory Fig.2.1 page 24 Deductive and inductive theory
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| ch02 Deductive and inductive theory Deductive and inductive theory - Deductive: Kelley and De Graaf (1997)
- - Factors that impact upon individuals religious beliefs
- Inductive: Charmaz (1997)
- - Chronic illness study
Epistemological considerations - What is (or should be) considered acceptable knowledge?
- Can the social world be studied ‘scientifically’?
- Is it appropriate to apply the methods of the natural sciences to social science research?
- Positivist and interpretivist epistemologies
Realist epistemology - Similarities to positivism:
- - natural science methods appropriate
- external reality exists independently of our perceptions
- Empirical (naive?) realism
- Critical realism
- - theoretical terms mediate our knowledge of reality
- - underlying structures generate observable events
Interpretivist epistemology - Subject matter of the social sciences (people) demands non-positivist methods
- Positivism vs hermeneutics (Von Wright 1971)
- - concerned with the theory and method of the interpretation of human action
- Hermeneutic-phenomenological tradition
- Verstehen: interpretative understanding of social action (Weber 1947)
- Attempts to see world from the actor’s perspective: subjective reality (Bogdan and Taylor 1975)
- Influenced by Symbolic Interactionism
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