Interpretive research paradigms: points of difference

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Interpretive research paradigms: points of difference

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Auckland University of Technology

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Tuwhera

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This paper outlines the background to the debate surrounding positivisitic and phenomenological research and the growing consensus of a mixed methods approach. It explains the increasing popularity of interpretative methods but recognises growing concern about the lack of rigour by some researchers in using these methods. In the move from positivism to interpretivism the two main interpretive approaches are symbolic interactionism and hermeneutic phenomenolism, but these terms are not synonym...

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Research Paper

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Conference item

Date created

2012-06-28

Creator

Losekoot, E / Wright, N

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10292/4523

Related subjects

Interpretivism / Symbolic interactionism / Hermeneutic phenomenology / Mixed methods

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