Positivism And Interpretivism

Question 1

Positivism

Answer 1

• influenced by natural sciences
• treated people as objects

Question 2

Interpretivism

Answer 2

• active creators of their own destinies
• society is socially constructed by produce of 2 crucial social processes; people choose to work alongside others, what makes an interaction or event social is that all those who take part give it same meaning

Question 3

Value freedom

Answer 3

• not allow personal or political values or their prejudices to bias aspects of their research method

Question 4

Reflexivity

Answer 4

• form of self evaluation that involves researchers reflecting critically on how they organised research process

Question 5

Interpretation

Answer 5

• influences affect validity positively or negatively concentrates in meanings people associate to their social life

Question 6

Subjectivity

Answer 6

• experience of social life and how they interact with others and how they interact with others and how they interpret the social reality they find themselves in

Question 7

Verstehen

Answer 7

• sociologists need to understand them same as participants, learn to see world from their standpoint, develop empathetic understanding

Question 8

Researcher imposition

Answer 8

• only focus on what the sociologist think is important and consequently may neglect what research subject really thinks