of metaphysics are: Ontology - The study of being or existence Natural Theology - The study of God and creation Universal Science - The study of first principles like the law of identity Epistemology It deals with the definition of knowledge and its scope and limitations. It translates from Greek to mean ’theory of knowledge’. It questions the meaning of knowledge‚ how we obtain knowledge‚ how much do we know‚ and how do we have this knowledge? Epistemology is further divided into
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P.S. (2003) Business Research Methods. 8th Edition‚ Boston: McGraw-Hill Irwin. Clough‚ P. and NUTBROWN‚ C. (2007) A Students´ Guide to Methodology: Justifying Enquiry [2nd edition] London: Sage. T. R. Gruber. A translation approach to portable ontologies. Knowledge Acquisition‚ 5(2):199-220‚ 1993. Schutt‚ R. (2003) Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research. Pine Forge Press: Thousand Oaks‚ CA. Bryman‚ A. (2004) ‘Qualitative research on leadership: a critical but appreciative
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ORIGINS OF STRUCTURATION THEORY Sociologist Anthony Giddens adopted a post-empiricist frame for his theory‚ as he was concerned with the abstract characteristics of social relations. This leaves each level more accessible to analysis via the ontologies which constitute the human social experience: space and time and thus‚ in one sense‚ ’history ’.
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Methods and Interpretation Guba EG‚ Lincoln YS (1994) Competing paradigms in qualitative research Hesse M (1980) Revolutions and Reconstructions in the Philosophy of Science Horsfall JM (1995) Madness in our methods: nursing research‚ scientific epistemology. Johnson RB‚ Onwuegbuzie AJ (2004) Mixed methods research: a research paradigm whose Lincoln YS‚ Guba EG (1985) Naturalistic Inquiry © RCN Publishing / NURSE RESEARCHER Mertens DM (2003) Mixed methods Mill JE‚ Allen MN‚ Morrow RA (2001) Critical
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Metaphilosophy relies on the idea that it might be productive to distinguish some general pronouncements about philosophy from philosophy itself. Contrasting with many other cultural practices‚ for philosophy the distinction is rather questionable‚ but a similar case is presented by language: when speaking in English about the English language one might assume a split between English-as-object and English-as-metalanguage. Philosophers using the term metaphilosophy being still a minority‚ it might
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rights and if they are responsible for their actions. Ontology has two aspects namely‚ the objectivist and subjectivist. The subjectivist assumes that the social world exists only if one is able to give logical and practical reasonings ( Natoli & Hutcheon ‚ 1993 ). The reality of the subjectivist is dependent on the knowledge of the ‘world’. However‚ the objectivist believes otherwise. Both of these subjective and objective assumptions in the ontology will enable one to understand how organisation works
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and feelings about the world and how it should be understood and studied." (Guba‚ 1990). Denzin and Lincoln (2001) listed three categories of those beliefs: Ontology: what kind of being is the human being. Ontology deals with the question of what is real. Epistemology: what is the relationship between the inquirer and the known: "epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge and the process by which knowledge is acquired and validated" (Gall‚ Borg‚ & Gall‚ 1996) Methodology:
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The Branches of Philosophy In order to narrow the aims of discussion philosophy was broken into branches. Traditionally philosophy has been broken into four main branches; however we would like to add a fifth branch in our text Epistemology Epistemology‚ from the Greek words episteme (knowledge) and logos (word/speech) is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature‚ origin‚ and scope of knowledge and love. APPROVAL: Mla MBILI JR II--196.21.83.196 (discuss) 18:20‚ 4 March 2014 (UTC)MM
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influence‚ and finally coming to a conclusion. Theoretical Framework The difference between a Modernist and Post Modernist within their meta-theoretical assumptions‚ both Ontology and Epistemology. Modernist Ontology is our conjecture about reality and what is real. The Modernist has an objectivism view in Ontology. “An ontological position that asserts that social phenomenon and their meanings have an existence that is independent of social actors“(In Bryman 2003). This means‚ in every organisation
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basic ontology‚ epistemology and methods of the three different perspectives in general. The second part of the essay will demonstrate the relative perception of organisational structure for the three perspectives and explains how these three perspectives advocate their views of organisational structure that will help us gain insight on understanding and analysing it. Ontology and Epistemology The modern‚ symbolic interpretive and post-modern perspective consists of two aspects‚ the ontology which
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