General Positivism And The Interpretive Paradigm

The positivist theory seeks to find reasons why people commit crimes outside the biological and psychological realm. This leaves society as the cause for crime and positivist theories seek to understand how society influences criminals decisions to offend (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). By looking at what circumstances surrounded the crime, and what social factors influenced the crime, it can be eliminated.

Interpretive methods of research start from the position that our knowledge of reality, including the domain of human action, is a social construction by human actors and that this applies equally to researchers. Thus there is no objective reality which can be discovered by researchers and replicated by others, in contrast to the assumptions of positivist science. (p. 5)

There are four philosophical worldviews involved in research, post positivism, constructivism, transformative, and pragmatism. A personally believed view that creates a model of the world that allow researchers to interpret and make logic on the research. Post positivism is a world view that traditionally used, and reductionistic, discrete testable sets, as well theory driven, which can be uses in qualitative and quantitative research method. Constructivism world view, people seek to understand their world that construct subjective meaning for their experiences. this world view constructed through interaction, history, social negotiation, and culture. Researcher can use this views to development of theory. A transformative world view holds

The initial shock of the significant workload and expectations can take their toll, but good time management skills can prevent multiple late nights in a row to get assignments done on time. Kelci Lynn Lucier has worked in higher education for ten years, and has experienced students struggle to try and find the balance between extracurricular activities, personal activities, and education priorities. Luckily, Lucier has four tips to help best use the time provided in a day. Lucier’s first step focuses on managing ones academic time and how it needs to be the top priority above all other curricular activities, stating: “It's important to remind yourself why you're in college in the first place: to graduate” (Lucier). Lucier’s second step is be able to manage personal time, she talks about how unrealistic it is to always be working, studying, or learning, she wants students to try and find time to do something fun with friends or a club. Lucier’s third step is to wkeep the students health in mind, it does no good to stay up until two in the morning studying over a history mid-term, only to be half asleep for the test anyway; sleep is important and without can only increase the stress. Lucier’s fourth and final step is to not be afraid to seek help with your time management, she states: “The most important thing to have for time

On the other hand, the post-positivism paradigm is comparative to my problem of practice as well. Post-positivists believe that researchers can be influenced by previous knowledge or background as they seek to verify information. Objectivity must be adhered to and procedures strictly followed so that personal bias does not influence outcomes during the research process (Mertens, 2015). Verifying information about academic integration and increased student achievement in my problem of practice could lead to the identification of relationships and prove or disprove the “what” questions. For example, what evidence exists that the integration of academics into CTE courses at shared-time centers has resulted in positive educational outcomes? Does the information related to the question need to be verified? Or does it just make logical sense that academic integration improves student achievement? If the phenomenon is verified, who will benefit? With my background and experience in CTE and academic integration as a teacher and administrator, true objective knowledge may be difficult to achieve, but I believe it can be done with careful planning and by following strict procedures. Also, the quantitative method for research and data collection is normally predominant in the

For many students, college is time to learn how to live on their own and party to their heart’s content. However, for others it is a stressful, but fulfilling experience in which they can expand their knowledge and experience in a number of fields and subjects. Many students learn a number of life skills during this startling and eventful time of their lives. Not surprisingly, a number of students attempt to balance a full time job, family, a social life, and getting a sufficient amount of sleep, all while maintaining a decent grade point average. Herein lies the problem. When a student splits their time between their job, education, family, sleep, and other important obligations, they end up not putting in one hundred percent of their

Census report determined that 71% of the nation’s 19.7 million college undergraduates were working in 2011 and of that number, one in five undergrads were working at least 35 hours a week year-round. In addition, the author stated students attempting to balance school, work and family /social obligations should evaluate the commitments in their life and discuss realistic goals with friends and family members to ensure that they have and time needed to maximize their success recommends Becky Takea-Tinker, president of Colorado State University–Global Campus in

Research paradigms (interpretive, positive and post-positive) are processes to follow when gathering information about a subject area, to then answer the hypothesis (Punch, 2009; Cohen, Manion and Morrison, 2011), this study used the interpretive paradigm due to the social constructivism of people’s perceptions within the subject area and the outcome of the qualitative research methods and literature, triangulated to produce the following findings discussed later in the study (Merriam, 2009; Roberts-Holmes,2014).

“Interpretive research begins and ends with the biography and self of the researcher." (Denzin, 1989, p.12). The positivist researcher is not affected by the subject of the research because he makes generalizations. (Saunders, 2003 p. 83). When the investigator is a positivist, he tends to use methods like experiments, surveys and field studies to generate data. In this approach, the interviewer is more likely to be an outsider which means that the investigator does not have any relation with the study group.

Here I am in my second year, not as far along as I had hoped. But I have discovered that many of my classmates also work full-time, and we see many advantages to being a working student. We are more mature and self-disciplined because we carry our work habits over to our studies. We concentrate harder than some of the younger, non-working students. Teachers seem to show us more respect. By taking longer to earn degrees, we have time to assimilate what we learn and develop our awareness from one semester to the next. While it’s true that we don’t have much time for socializing or extracurricular activities, we do learn to make friends quickly in classroom situations and make the most of our social opportunities between classes.

What makes student busy? Is it about their academic performance? Probably you say yes, but the most rampant issue and the great competitors in student interest nowadays are their works, who makes them busy, bother, restless, tired, and sometimes lousy in school performance. Being a worker is not a problem, for the reason that this is a source and means of income to everybody. But we have to accept the fact that it is not advisable for a certain student to engage in such work while

In gaining a clear understanding of Social Science Research based on this week’s readings and other scholarly articles, I consider breaking down this term into two sections. Firstly, Social Science is the scientific study of human interaction/behaviors in a given society. Secondly, because there are different theories on subject matters in the study of Social Science it is imperative that data is collected and analysis.

Positivism is a theoretical point of view which concentrates on social facts, scientific methods and quantitative data. The research methods that are commonly used by positivists are questionnaires, structured interviews, structured non-participant observation and official statistics. These methods are used as they are objective and reliable. One sociological study that used positivist methods was Durkheim’s Suicide Study. Durkheim used official statistics to study suicide and demonstrate society as a science with its own distinct subject matter.

The problem has been developed with the question as to how the corresponding workloads and required working hours of working students affect their academic performance at University of Caloocan- Camarin Campus.

I have chosen my paradigm based on my research background and working experience. I have taken my position of participatory paradigm. Participatory paradigm is relatively new concept of paradigm in social science theories(Heron & Reason, 1997). It is derived from qualitative research tradition. Participatory paradigm has been growing in recent years and particularly in the developing countries. Chambers(1986: 1) describes participatory paradigm as “…[c]oherent and mutually supportive pattern of concepts, values, methods and action amenable to wide application” . It is based on the principle of participation and call attention to bottom up approach. It treats society or people as research participants rather than research subjects (Brown,