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Empirical Research
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The study of what is in the real world
2
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Normative research
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The study of what ought to be, based on values
3
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Positivism
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Assumes the social world is like the natural world and can be studied using the same methods
4
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Interpetivism
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Assumes the social world is fundamentally different and must be understood through meanings, not laws
5
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Ontology
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The nature of what exists in the social world
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Epistemology
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What counts as knowledge and how we can know it
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Methodology
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The strategies and tools we use to study the world
8
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Positivist goal
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Law-like generalisations and causal explanations
9
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Interpretivist goal
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Understanding hidden meaning and motivations
Quantitative and Qualitative analysis
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