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Erin Thomas  

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Re: Topic 3 DQ 2

Hi Professor and Class,

In the sociology field there are two tyoes of research approaches positivism and Interpretivism. Positivists believe in trends and patterns. Positivists belive that these shape the person and what affects them. Interpretivism tends to raise the argument that people are not puppets who tend to react to external forces of society (Patten et al.,2017).  Interpretivism believes that people are more compilcated and complex. 

 

Patten, M. L., & Newhart, M. (2017). Understanding research methods: An overview of the essentials. Routledge.

A manda Torres  

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Re: Topic 3 DQ 2

Positivist methodology is meant to be more scientifical than interpretivist methodology. Positivist is meant to be more on the structured in their data and analyzing. Positivism creates and initial hypostasis with a statement to study versus interpretivist create a question and observe and study the behavior. Positivist will generate their hypothesis and find the cause and effects by collecting quantitative data while interpretivist will collect more qualitive data to described the subjects feeling or experiences toward the questions at hand. Since positivism is scientifical and structured they stay out of the research themselves so that they do not influence the research and create bias whereas interpretivist will insert themselves into the research to understand the subjects better, sometimes creating a recognized bias.