Lincoln, Y.S. and Guba, E.G. (2000)
(n.b. this article is super-dense...)
N.B. the full discussion around this article can be found here https://modules.lancs.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=22907 - the discussion is more enlightening than the article itself!
How values inform the enquiry process:
Human phenomena are themselves the subject of controversy. Classical social scientists would like to see "human phenomena" limited to those social experiments from which (scientific) generalisations may be drawn.
New-paradigm inquirers, however, are increasingly concerned with the single experience, the individual crisis, the epiphany or moment of discovery, with that most powerful of all threats to conventional objectivity, feeling and emotion.
Social scientists concerned with the expansion of what count as social data rely increasingly on the experiential, the embodied, the emotive qualities of human experience that contribute the narrative quality to life.
"in the Postmodern moment, and in the wake of poststructuralism, the assumption that there is no single "truth" - that all truths are but partial truths; that the slippage between signifier and signified in linguistic and textual terms creates re-presentations that are only and always shadows of the actual people, events, and places; that identities are fluid rather than fixed - leads us ineluctably toward the insight that there will be no single "conventional" paradigm to which all social scientists might ascribe in some common terms and with mutual understanding.
Rather, we stand at the threshold of a history marked by multivocality, contested meanings, paradigmatic controversies, and new textual forms. At some distance down this conjectural path, when its history is written, we will find that this has been the era of emancipation: emancipation from what Hannah Arendt calls "the coerciveness of Truth", emancipation from hearing only the voices of Western Europe, emancipation from generations of silence, and emancipation from seeing the world in one color."
(n.b. this article is super-dense...)
N.B. the full discussion around this article can be found here https://modules.lancs.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=22907 - the discussion is more enlightening than the article itself!
How values inform the enquiry process:
- choice of the problem
- choice of paradigm to guide the problem
- choice of theoretical framework
- choice of major data-gathering and data-analytic methods
- choice of context
- treatment of values resident within the context, and
- choice of format(s) for presenting findings
Human phenomena are themselves the subject of controversy. Classical social scientists would like to see "human phenomena" limited to those social experiments from which (scientific) generalisations may be drawn.
New-paradigm inquirers, however, are increasingly concerned with the single experience, the individual crisis, the epiphany or moment of discovery, with that most powerful of all threats to conventional objectivity, feeling and emotion.
Social scientists concerned with the expansion of what count as social data rely increasingly on the experiential, the embodied, the emotive qualities of human experience that contribute the narrative quality to life.
"in the Postmodern moment, and in the wake of poststructuralism, the assumption that there is no single "truth" - that all truths are but partial truths; that the slippage between signifier and signified in linguistic and textual terms creates re-presentations that are only and always shadows of the actual people, events, and places; that identities are fluid rather than fixed - leads us ineluctably toward the insight that there will be no single "conventional" paradigm to which all social scientists might ascribe in some common terms and with mutual understanding.
Rather, we stand at the threshold of a history marked by multivocality, contested meanings, paradigmatic controversies, and new textual forms. At some distance down this conjectural path, when its history is written, we will find that this has been the era of emancipation: emancipation from what Hannah Arendt calls "the coerciveness of Truth", emancipation from hearing only the voices of Western Europe, emancipation from generations of silence, and emancipation from seeing the world in one color."
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