Positivism
tekijä: Tanja Tuulikki Välisalo
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Viimeisin muutos
maanantai 08. maaliskuuta 2010, 14.28
Positivism stresses the use of precise research methods, which are a fundamental starting point of science in the formation of knowledge.
- Considers as scientific only such methods, which are based on immediate observation and measurement of phenomena with various quantitative variables
- Emphasises the idea of objectivism in research methods
- Emphasises that scientific observations and measurement methods are inherently objective,
Positivism is a contrast orientation to interpretivism.
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