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Dialectics, Power, and Knowledge Construction in Qualitative Research - Beyond Dichotomy (Paperback)
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Dialectics, Power, and Knowledge Construction in Qualitative Research - Beyond Dichotomy (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods
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This book is about going beyond dichotomy. The research literature
in social sciences is full of apparent dichotomies such as the
dichotomy between: qualitative and quantitative approaches;
"reality" and "multiple-realities"; ontology and epistemology;
researchers and participants; the right and wrong conduct of
research; and sometimes even between the goals of research and the
ethics of research. Throughout the book, it is shown that adopting
a dialectical approach, which attempts to integrate apparent
contradictions and opposites at a higher level of abstraction, may
serve as a way out of the twin horns of such dilemmas. To begin
this journey, the authors start with the classical dilemma of the
relationship between "reality" and "knowledge", as a common divide
between the quantitative and qualitative epistemological paradigms,
and the philosophical assumptions underlying them. To illustrate
the understanding of the relationship between knowledge and
reality, metaphors of "maps and territories" are used as a
framework for the dialectical construction of knowledge. This book
will be valuable to a diverse readership, including scholars
interested in epistemology and philosophy of science and research
methods, mainly from qualitative traditions. It will also be of
interest to quantitative researchers as well, including supervisors
of graduate students, lecturers and, most importantly, students and
researchers-to-be.
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