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Ontology
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The branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such.
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Epistemology
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a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge.
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Axiology
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the branch of philosophy dealing with values, as those of ethics, aesthetics, or religion
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Post Modernism
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Post modernism questions the ideas of Enlightenment and positivism and argues that economic and technological conditions of our age have given rise to a decentralized, media-dominated society in which ideas are simulacra and only inter-referential representations and copies of each other, with no real original, stable or objective source for communication and meaning.
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Grounded Theory
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Grounded theory was developed as a systematic methodology, and its name underscores the generation of theory from data. When the principles of grounded theory are followed, a researcher using this approach will formulate a theory, either substantive (setting specific) or formal, about the phenomena they are studying that can be evaluated
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Critical Theory
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Critical theory is social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only to understanding or explaining it.
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Ethnography
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a branch of anthropology dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures
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