[Interpretationandmethods] Interpretationandmethods Digest, Vol 43, Issue 1

[psshea at csbs.utah.edu]

Patrick will not post again :) but I do have a response.  Yes, I agree  
that "prospecting" is dualist.

I kind of liked being first in the sense that I "set the agenda" for  
the students and they did not "come to me" with a prior sense that  
ONLY variables-based quantitative research could be scientific.  I  
think they were then more "critical" of the next very traditional prof.

Peri




Quoting Patrick Thaddeus Jackson <patrickthaddeusjackson at gmail.com>:

> On Jul 11, 2008, at 3:41 PM, psshea at csbs.utah.edu wrote:
>
>> Whether that metaphor is apt can be debated, but it can help
>> variables-researchers (PTJ - does that get me around the
>> realist/positivist labels?) to get some sense of why not everything
>> can (or should) be spelled out in interpretive/relational research
>> proposals.
>
>
> It does, but of course "prospecting" is still dualist: digging around
> for something that is presumably already out there, hidden beneath the
> ground, just waiting for us to stumble upon it.
>
> It's too bad that your course is doing "qualitative"/interpretive
> first and "quantitative"/large-n second. That format allows the second
> half of the course to turn to the first half and say "thanks for
> providing us with the raw data, we'll take it from here." Very David
> Laitin-esque faux methodological diversity, where everyone gets to
> play as long as they all play the same game in the end.
>
> Okay, this is seriously the last thing I am going to post on the list
> for a couple of weeks. I mean it.
>
> PTJ
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