Research Paradigm

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A Research Paradigm Whose Time Has Come
The advocates of qualitative and quantitative research have been engaged in a long-standing dispute. The purists, who insist on adherence to absolute traditional structure and want things to remain natural, argued persuasively based on the assumptions and beliefs of the positivist point of view commonly called positivist’s philosophy. The quantitative research advocates, on the other hand, maintained that qualitative research should be treated with distinct and independent existence, the way that physical science treats physical phenomena. They maintained that the observation of the research should be completely separate their bias from the subject of observation. However, the quantitative advocates insist …show more content…

These researchers have used a long established verbal conflicts involving a formal writing style by using a natural, bias complaint voice relating to a particular subject, in which initiating social law is the focus of attention. In other words, qualitative constructivists and interpretivists (purists) dismissed as inadequate or inappropriate positivism. They site evidence in support of the supremacy of constructivism, idealism, relativism, humanism, hermeneutics and sometimes, postmodernism. These purists involved several parts of arguments to establish that time and circumstances that form the setting for generalizations does not exist, that it is neither seen as being attractive, useful or attainable. That research has been bound to a specific value, that it is impossible to ascertain fully causes and effects and that logic goes from specific to general. The writers of this article, R. Burke and Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie specify that their main point is to introduce mixed method as a third research model, they emphasized with great conviction that the aim of mixed method is not to replace quantitative or qualitative research but to strengthen their …show more content…

When viewed simply, mixed model designs are constructed by mixing qualitative and quantitative approaches within and across the stages of research. One may also consider the dimension of paradigm emphasis by deciding whether to give the quantitative and qualitative component of a mixed study equal status or to give one paradigm the dominant status. It is a key point that mixed methods research truly opens up an exciting and almost unlimited potential for future

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