LHRD 7200 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.DOCX
Modernism
Reason and science provide foundation for knowledge.
Reason exists independent of our contexts. Identity is
static.
Post Modernism
Reason and science are myths created by man. No
eternal truth. Like Subjectivism. Identity is fluid.
Pragmatism
A philosophy which focuses only on the outcomes and
effects of processes and situations. Reality constantly
reinterpreted in light of its usefulness in new situations.
Structuralism
an early school of psychology that used introspection to
explore the elemental structure of the human mind.
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, Study of mental structures in society. Uses Critical
Theory
Ontology of positivism
Researcher and reality are separate
Ontology of Interpretivism
Researcher and reality are inseparable
Epistemology of Positivism
reality exists beyond human mind
Epistemology of Interpretivism
knowledge of world exists through person's lived
experience
Ontology
the study of being, becoming, existence, reality
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Modernism
Reason and science provide foundation for knowledge.
Reason exists independent of our contexts. Identity is
static.
Post Modernism
Reason and science are myths created by man. No
eternal truth. Like Subjectivism. Identity is fluid.
Pragmatism
A philosophy which focuses only on the outcomes and
effects of processes and situations. Reality constantly
reinterpreted in light of its usefulness in new situations.
Structuralism
an early school of psychology that used introspection to
explore the elemental structure of the human mind.
Page 1 of 7
, Study of mental structures in society. Uses Critical
Theory
Ontology of positivism
Researcher and reality are separate
Ontology of Interpretivism
Researcher and reality are inseparable
Epistemology of Positivism
reality exists beyond human mind
Epistemology of Interpretivism
knowledge of world exists through person's lived
experience
Ontology
the study of being, becoming, existence, reality
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