Dissolving Dualisms: How Two Positivists Engaged with Non-Positivist Qualitative Methodology
This is the story of how a chemical engineer and a medical microbiologist overcame their positivist training and deeply held disciplinary attitudes to engage with non-positivist qualitative methodology. Through a series of facilitated reflections they explored what helped and hindered their transiti...
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| description | This is the story of how a chemical engineer and a medical microbiologist overcame their positivist training and deeply held disciplinary attitudes to engage with non-positivist qualitative methodology. Through a series of facilitated reflections they explored what helped and hindered their transition from positivist to non-positivist inquiry. To move forward they needed to acknowledge the extent and nature of the transition they were making, find metaphors to dissolve troubling dualisms, and balance a desire to reach out to others with the need to manage the very real sense of vulnerability that came with embracing subjectivity. Their experiences suggest that pragmatism may be a useful bridging framework for the growing number of academics from the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines turning to qualitative methodologists for help to move beyond positivist research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ce7a289fef124cd38fb02b3590a1ba642022-12-21T22:41:11ZengSAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods1609-40692013-02-011210.1177/16094069130120010610.1177_160940691301200106Dissolving Dualisms: How Two Positivists Engaged with Non-Positivist Qualitative MethodologyCarolyn Oliver PhD-CSusan Nesbit PhDNiamh Kelly PhDThis is the story of how a chemical engineer and a medical microbiologist overcame their positivist training and deeply held disciplinary attitudes to engage with non-positivist qualitative methodology. Through a series of facilitated reflections they explored what helped and hindered their transition from positivist to non-positivist inquiry. To move forward they needed to acknowledge the extent and nature of the transition they were making, find metaphors to dissolve troubling dualisms, and balance a desire to reach out to others with the need to manage the very real sense of vulnerability that came with embracing subjectivity. Their experiences suggest that pragmatism may be a useful bridging framework for the growing number of academics from the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines turning to qualitative methodologists for help to move beyond positivist research.https://doi.org/10.1177/160940691301200106 |
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| title | Dissolving Dualisms: How Two Positivists Engaged with Non-Positivist Qualitative Methodology |
| title_full | Dissolving Dualisms: How Two Positivists Engaged with Non-Positivist Qualitative Methodology |
| title_fullStr | Dissolving Dualisms: How Two Positivists Engaged with Non-Positivist Qualitative Methodology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dissolving Dualisms: How Two Positivists Engaged with Non-Positivist Qualitative Methodology |
| title_short | Dissolving Dualisms: How Two Positivists Engaged with Non-Positivist Qualitative Methodology |
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