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Blumer
He is a phenomenological researcher who emphitizes subjectivity, does not deny that there is a reality one must attend to. -
Auguste Comete
The debate started.
He claimed that the methods of natural science could be justufied in studying social science, that is the collectio and study of facts that can be observed through sensory input -
Period: to
grip on social science
The philosophy of positivism maintained a grip on social science from the late 1800´s to early 1900´s -
Herbert spencer. "the unknowables"
The unknowables , according to Herbert are those things that cannot be sensed but might rely on reason or thought -
Jhon Dewey
He viewed science as not separate and disctint from problem solving, he appreciated the deeper complexity of what educational and social sciences study -
quantitative paradigm
During the 1940´s and 1950´s the quantitative paradigm dominated social science and the educational research science. Theoriusts utilized empirical fect gathering and hypotesis testing in studying educational and social phenomena -
Dewey
He diffuse the positivistic assumptions made by researchers, this hypothetico-deductive system was dominant in the middle of years of the 20th century in psychology and sociology. -
radical changes in society
While some began to question the efficacy of the positivists tools in explaining human organizational and social phenomena -
Thomas Kuhn
He looked back in the history of science as he sought to know more about it´s fundation and by exploring the literature he was exposed to Jean Piaget and in late 1950´s to a historcal analysis of social science and psychology. so he left physics and became a historian of science. -
1960´- 1970´s issues
Culbertson points issuas as radical intorregation, poverty, equal oportunity, schools as tools in global econimic competition.
Some began to search for policy tools that the quantitative paradim did not seem sufficiently able to explain. -
Mouly
There are two ways other than science to know something, theres experience and reasoning. -
Cook and Reichardt
They suggest that the researcher´s method can be separated from the researcher´s worldview. Their purpose was to bring together the combined works of many who were then struggling with the issues -
Michael Patton
His conceptualization, like ours, acknowledges that, between qualitative and quantitative peradigms, there is a continuum of methods -
our thoughts
Our thoughts began to solidify in an interactive continuum model -
William Firestone
Differentiates thye qualitative from the quantitative research based on four dimensions (assumption, purpose, approach and research role). -
American educational research journal
the editors announced in 1987 that particular emphasis on qualitative methodology would be forthcoming as they evaluated menuscripts -
Culbertson
The quantitative paradigm prevailed in education until the mid-1980´s. and the logical positivists were losin supremacy. -
Shaker
In a discussion of program evaluation models, presentes them as a metaphorical journey. Moving from quantitative perspecives in the past to more recent neturalistic and qualitative assumptions. -
Eisner
cautions against dichotomy and asserts that quelitative and quantitative reaserch can be combiend -
Creswell
He intends to assist the researcher in making decisions aboput designs. He wrote a book with examples of bothe qualitative and quantitiative studies -
Conclusion
In my opinion qualitative and quantitative research even that they are different they complement each other, and we should use both in order to understand things in a better and more extense way in order to analyse different aspects of evey data.
The debate between thsee types of researchs had been very long, and in the pass of the time there´s always one that has been more used and liked by people but by the changing of the social environment the needs change and the other is more used.
