Interpretivism
- Created by: hannahmoore
- Created on: 20-05-15 15:38
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- Interpretivism
- We are not puppets of society
- People are conscious beings who act with meaning
- Individuals make choices based on free will
- Social interaction- we are constantly interpreting
- To understand behaviour we need to discover meanings
- Research needs to be valid
- Ethnographic methods get in the head of individuals to understand
- Unstructured interviews and participant observation favoured
- Qualitative data
- Reject lab experiemnts- artificial
- Use personal documents for secondary data
- Triangulation
- Using more than one research method
- Primary and secondary
- Facilitation- one method develops another
- Complement- methods are combined to join and produce results
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