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8 Cards in this Set
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paradigm
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Shared assumptions that define scientific knowledge and how it should be produced
(Thomas Kuhn) |
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normal science
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The dominant paradigm within a given scientific discipline
(Thomas Kuhn) |
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paradigm incommensurability
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assumptions, interests and methods of one paradigm contradict those of any other paradigm and therefore translations between them are impossible
(Gibson Burrell and Gareth Morgan) |
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critical realism
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a position that lies somewhere between modern and symbolic-interpretive perspectives
(Roy Bhaskar) |
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philosophical realism
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(1) empirical adequacy - theories and laws must offer causal explanations and allow predictions about future behavior
(2) theories are acceptable only when they represent reality accurately and are truthful (3) researchers must be able to verify the accuracy of a theory and replicate its results through experimentation that provides inductive evidence |
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generative mechanisms
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none
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self-organizers
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order emerging from chaos
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complex adaptive systems
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(Ralph Stacey)
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