LESSON 9 - RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY : RESEARCH PARADIGMS & PHILOSOPHICAL ASSUMPTIONS

Welcome to this lesson where we shall anchor research on philosophy. Lets start by asking ourselves? What influences the decisions you make in life? This could be decisions regarding the school you take your children to, the kind of car you drive, the kind of neighborhood you live in and the type of institution you enroll for a higher degree. In real sense, these decisions are influenced by the beliefs and assumptions that you hold regarding a particular issue. Similarly, development of knowledge by researchers is influenced by the beliefs and the assumptions they hold.
In research, there are three assumptions that influences how researchers develop knowledge in order to answer research questions/problem. This regards:
1. The nature of knowledge (Epistemology)
2. The nature of reality (Ontology)
3. The nature of Values (Axiology)
This lesson will discuss in details each of these assumptions.
Researchers hold different views regarding the above. Disagreements on these brought about paradigms with each paradigm holding its view on knowledge, reality and values differently. In social science research, we have 4 paradigms: Positivism, Social Constructivism, Emancipatory and Pragmatism. In the lesson, each of the paradigm is discussed based on the assumptions they hold.
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Thanks for sharing this is well simplified. It will be good if you can provide your details, so that one can cite this in further studies.

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I have research methodology exam tomorrow, this is so helpful, thanks Doc

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[@marthamaina3184]

Thank you simplifying this Dr Wambugu. Good job .Is methodology another assumption and are assumptions also called elements ?

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Hello Martha. Thank you for your kind comment. Methodology is not an element but it is one way of differentiating research approaches. Though different approaches uses different Methodologies, it does not qualify to be a philosophical assumptions because there is no paradigm emanating from it

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@@research-methods-class if you have this lecture as text book please I still like to get it. It will still be fine if you can provide the details on how to cite this in once research work

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@@emmanueltheophilus1325 Hi Emmanuel

[@violetviolet204]

Hey Dr.Lydia can you kindly share references for paradigms discussed on this video.

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Hello Violet. I use many references. However, you can get more from my book: Research Methods: Theory and Practice. Check the website for more details: researchmethodsclass.com/ebook/

[@stephenmwangangi8596]

Can a pragmatist use both exploratory cross sectional design and mixed method Design in his research or he is limited to mixed method Design

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Hello Stephen, pragmatists uses more than two paradigms (Qn and Ql). However, you also have to remember that we have multi-method approaches where we can use more than two designs from the same paradigm (i.e. 2 QN) or (2 QL). In a MMR, you do not need to have cross sectional and MMR because you can incorporate cross-sectional in MMR or Multi-method approach.

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