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1824-1920
Juxtaposing Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Educational Research
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Objects of Inquiry
Objectivity; Value-neutrality
Logical-positivism; Empiricism Scientific experiments; Social survey
Causal explanation in: Nomological-induction model; Probabilistic-deductive model
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Three Interpretations of Weber’s Aporia
…. Habermas underlines that “The definition of sociology that Weber gives in the first paragraphs of Economy and Society applies to method: ‘Sociology is a science concerning itself with interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to arrive at a causal explanation of its course and consequence’ We may consider this sentence as an answer to the question, How are general theories of social action possible? General theories allow use to derive assumptions about empirical regularities in the form of hypotheses that serve the purpose of explanation. At the same time, and in contradistinction to natural processes, regularities of social action have the property of being understandable. Social action belongs to the class of intentional actions, which we grasp by reconstructing their meaning.” (Habermas, 1988/1967, Pdpo.cin1/s0un-d1ae1_m)eng