Basic Beliefs Associated With the Major Paradigms Basic Beliefs Postpositivism Constructivism Transformative Pragmatic Axiology(nature of ethical behavior) Respect privacy; informed consent; minimize.
Basic Beliefs Associated With the Major Paradigms Basic Beliefs Postpositivism Constructivism Transformative Pragmatic Axiology(nature Respect Balanced Respect for Gain knowledge in privacy; cultural of ethical representation pursuit of desired informed norms; behavior) of views; raise beneficence is ends as influenced consent; participants’ by the researcher’s defined in minimize harm terms of the awareness; values and politics (beneficence); promotion of community human justice/equal rapport rights and increase in opportunity social justice; reciprocity Ontology One reality; (nature of knowable within reality) a specified level Multiple, socially constructed realities of probability Rejects cultural Asserts that there relativism; recognizes is single reality that various versions and that all individuals have of reality are based their own unique on social positioning; reality interpretation of conscious recognition of consequences of privileging versions of reality Epistemology Objectivity Interactive link Interactive link Relationships (nature of is important; the researcher between researcher in research are knowledge; between researcher determined relation manipulates and between observes in a knower and would-be known) dispassionate, objective manner and participants; values are made explicit; created findings and participants; by what the knowledge is socially researcher deems as and historically situated; appropriate to that particular study need to address issues of Methodology Quantitative Qualitative (approach (primarily); (primarily); to systematic interventionist; hermeneutical; inquiry decontextualized dialectical; contextual factors are described power and trust Qualitative (dialogic), Match methods to but quantitative and and purposes of specific questions mixed methods can be research; mixed used; contextual and used as researcher historical factors are forth between described, especially as they relate to oppression SOURCE: Adapted from Guba & Lincoln (1994, 2005) and Morgan (2007) methods can be works back and various approaches ... objective manner and participants; values are made explicit; created findings and participants; by what the knowledge is socially researcher deems as and historically situated; appropriate to that particular... contextual and used as researcher historical factors are forth between described, especially as they relate to oppression SOURCE: Adapted from Guba & Lincoln (1994, 2005) and Morgan (2007) methods