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A social scientist from Waterloo in Sydney has conversations with his friends about research, writing, and whatever else takes his fancy.
This episode introduces the idea of research paradigms, giving an overview of five major paradigms: positivism, postpositivism, constructivism, critical theory and postructuralism. We talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars and Star Trek. We don't dig into the history of each, or the tensions between them (what you might call the theory or paradigm 'wars'), that's for another episode.
The Wisdom of Waterloo
A social scientist from Waterloo in Sydney has conversations with his friends about research, writing, and whatever else takes his fancy.
