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Chapter 1: The Nature of Inquiry

Posted by Scott Wojtanowski on September 8th, 2008

Practice of Research 

Scientific and Positivistic Methodology
Naturalistic and Interpretive Methodologies
Methodologies of Critical Theory

Three Broad Categories (Environment and Understanding)

Experience (Common-Sense Knowing)

Loose and uncritical manner of understanding
Control is used to systematical find a sufficient reason to predice a causual link/relationship.

Resoning

Methods

Deductive

Syllogism –> Priori (Self-Evident Proposition) –> Minor Premise providing particular instance –> Conclusion

Inductive

Study number of cases leads to a […]