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Auguste Comte
Methods ofmatural science could be justified in studying social science -
Jhon Dewey
science is not separate and distinct from problem solving -
Herbert Spencer
science is acumulated through the study of phenomena that can be physicaly sensed, observed, and counted -
1940´S-1950´S
empirirical fact gathering and hypothesis testing almost exclusively in studying educational and social phenomena -
1960´s
Skepticism toward the domination of logical positivsm and the evident chasm between human social systems and mathematical logic grew -
Glaser and Stratuss
quanlitative data are often coded a posteriori form interpretations of those data -
Mouly
only through science we generalize and provide for theory building -
Michael Patoon
Between qualitative and quantitative paradigms, there is a continuum of methods -
Blumer
emphasizes subjetivity, there is a reality one must attend to