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Postpositivism vs Interpretivism - What's the difference?

postpositivism | interpretivism |

As nouns the difference between postpositivism and interpretivism

is that postpositivism is a metatheoretical stance that critiques and amends positivism. While positivists believe that the researcher and the researched person are independent of each other, postpositivists accept that theories, background, knowledge and values of the researcher can influence what is observed. They believe that human knowledge is based not on unchallengeable, rock-solid foundations, but rather upon human conjectures while interpretivism is antipositivism.

postpositivism

English

(wikipedia postpositivism)

Noun

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  • (philosophy) A metatheoretical stance that critiques and amends positivism. While positivists believe that the researcher and the researched person are independent of each other, postpositivists accept that theories, background, knowledge and values of the researcher can influence what is observed. They believe that human knowledge is based not on unchallengeable, rock-solid foundations, but rather upon human conjectures.

    • Synonyms

    * postempiricism

    interpretivism

    English

    Noun

  • antipositivism
  • qualitative research
  • A school of cultural anthropological thought founded by (Franz Boas).
  • (legal) A school of thought holding that law is not a set of given data, conventions or physical facts, but what lawyers aim to construct or obtain in their practice.

    • Related terms

    * interpretivist * interpretivistic