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List of Figures and Tables | |
Preface to the First Edition | |
Preface to the Second Edition | |
Introduction | |
Major Choices in Social Enquiry | |
Introduction | |
Research Problem | |
Research Questions | |
Research Strategies | |
Researcher's Stance | |
Research Paradigms | |
The Status of Knowledge | |
Research Paradigms and Research Strategies | |
Chapter Summary | |
Further Reading | |
Major Dilemmas in Social Enquiry | |
Introduction | |
Science and Social Science | |
Major Dilemmas | |
The Postmodern Turn | |
Chapter Summary | |
Further Reading | |
Advancing Knowledge Using Four | |
Research Strategies | |
Introduction | |
Styles of Reasoning | |
The Inductive Research Strategy | |
The Deductive Research Strategy | |
Combining the Inductive and Deductive Strategies | |
The Abductive Research Strategy | |
Combining Retroductive and Abductive Strategies | |
Chapter Summary | |
Further Reading | |
Classical Research Paradigms | |
Introduction | |
Positivism | |
Critical Rationalism | |
Classical Hermeneutics | |
Interpretivism | |
Chapter Summary | |
Further Reading | |
Contemporary Research Paradigms | |
Introduction | |
Critical Theory | |
Ethnomethodology | |
Social Realism | |
Contemporary Hermeneutics | |
Structuration Theory | |
Feminism | |
Chapter Summary | |
Further Reading | |
Review and Critique of The Research Paradigms | |
Introduction | |
Research Paradigms Revisited: Ontology and Epistemology | |
Critique of the Research Paradigms | |
Review of Some Major Dilemmas | |
Association between Research Strategies Research Paradigms | |
Conclusion | |
Further Reading | |
Postscript: The Complexity Turn | |
Introduction | |
Origins | |
Characteristics of Complex Systems | |
Key Ideas | |
The Reality of the Complex | |
Complexity and Postmodernism | |
Complexity and Research | |
Conclusion | |
References | |
Notes | |
Figures and Tables | |
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