CHARACTERISTICS OF POSITIVISTIC & PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACHES & PERSPECTIVES TO RESEARCH

CHARACTERISTICS OF POSITIVISTIC & PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACHES & PERSPECTIVES TO RESEARCH

1. Positivistic

   • Positivistic approaches to research are based on research methodologies commonly used in science. They are characterised by a detached approach to research that seeks out the facts or causes of any social phenomena in a systematic way.

2. Phenomenological

   • Phenomenological approaches however, approach research from the perspective that human behaviour is not as easily measured as phenomena in the natural sciences.

3. Positivistic Surveys Experimental Studies LongitudinalStudies Cross-sectional Studies

4. Phenomenological Case Studies Action Research Ethnography (participant observation) Participative Enquiry Feminist Perspectives Grounded Theory