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Realism vs Interpretivism - What's the difference?

realism | interpretivism |

As nouns the difference between interpretivism and realism

is that interpretivism is antipositivism while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

realism

Noun

  • A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary
  • An artistic representation of reality as it is
  • (sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation
  • (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them
  • Antonyms

    * (doctrine concerning universals) nominalism

    See also

    * idealism

    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.