Lecture 2

Question 1

What are 3 main epistemologies?

Answer 1

1. Positivism 2. Interpretivism 3. Critical Realism

Question 2

Define Intersectionality

Answer 2

The ways in which race, gender, and class combine to influence population patterns of morbidity and mortality

Question 3

Define Positivism?

Answer 3

An epistemology that defines knowledge and truth as variables that can be rigorously measured, and cause-effect relationships analyzed

Question 4

What is a criticism of positivism?

Answer 4

that there’s not enough of a focus on context

Question 5

Define Interpretivism?

Answer 5

An epistemology that defines knowledge and truth as subjective and social phenomena only truly being understood through the participants perspective

Question 6

What is the key difference between positivism and interpretivism?

Answer 6

positivism tries to measure and draw conclusions where as interpretivism looks to compile all views and not generalize

Question 7

Define critical realism?

Answer 7

An epistemology that defines knowledge and truth as theoretical analysis deep rooted structural forces that shape lived experiences, patterns of morbidity and mortality, and structure of the health care system

Question 8

What’s a criticism of interpretivism?

Answer 8

Can’t make generalizations with this

Question 9

Define phenomenology.

Answer 9

Describing the lived experiences of individuals about a phenomenon, often with in-depth interviews