It seeks to interrogate the continuing viability of positivism as a guiding paradigm for nursing research. It does this by critically analysing the methodological literature. Five major paradigms are addressed: the positivist; the interpretivist/constructivist; the transformative; the realist; and the ...
A description of post-positivism is offered along with a rationale for its use in past as well as future studies. Examples are offered regarding how a post-positivist paradigm can be pragmatic in further examining the complex meanings of leisure.关键词:...
In a misguided attempt to become as scientific as the natural sciences, social work has embraced the logical positivist paradigm since the 1950s. But contemporary philosophy of science has undercut conclusively logical positivism's claims and demonstrated that the logical positivist paradigm places ...
A further telling criticism – the so-called ‘paradox of positivism’ – is that the Verification Principle is itself unverifiable. In recent years, new approaches in the philosophy and history of science (see SCIENCE, SCIENTIFIC PARADIGM) have shed doubt on the idea of a single philosophical ...
2.1.1. Positivistic Paradigm Positivism is a stretched terminology of the 'positive' science and 'positive' philosophy which appeared in Francis Bacon's writings in the 16th century (Crotty, 1998). However, Auguste Comte (1830s) is considered its founder and populariser. Ever since, positivism...
Research paradigm Triage system With 2012 looming around the corner, emergency care workers working on and around the holidays incorporated into the end of our annual calendar will share in the madness and mayhem of the festivities in a slightly different capacity than their patients, when Emergency...
a current of neopositivism that emerged in the 1920’s from the Vienna circle. The logical positivists attempted to combine empiricism, based on the verifiability principle, with a method of logical analysis of scientific knowledge for the purpose of reducing the latter to an “immediate given,”...
d.Any of several doctrines or viewpoints, often similar to Comte's, that stress attention to actual practice over consideration of what is ideal:"Positivism became the 'scientific' base for authoritarian politics, especially in Mexico and Brazil"(Raymond Carr). ...
Is scientific positivism, long the reigning paradigm for research in the social sciences, the `best way' to conduct social research? This is the central question examined in The Paradigm Dialog. Recently three key challenges have appeared - positivism, critical theory and constructivism. All three ...
Theory and the Process–Product Paradigm of Research Nate's continuing defense of the importance of theory in his monographs and journal articles gave rise to a descriptive theory by him for thinking about research on teaching, and the place within this domain of his preferred kind of research,...