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Download full textLincoln, Yvonna S.; Guba, Egon G. – 1987
The central failure of conventional, or positivistic inquiry has been the inability to handle deception in research and the violation of societal ethics, moral and legal caused by such deception. Moral dimensions include tests for whether the research would be approved by reasonable persons, whether it might pass the test of publicity, and whether…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Ethics, Inquiry, Legal Problems
Lincoln, Yvonna S. – 1988
All social science serves some agenda: social science research is a value-bound, value-determined, context-situated, and ideologically loaded enterprise. Each researcher makes choices in the following areas, whether tacitly, implicitly, or deliberately: (1) a paradigm choice, either conventional (rationalistic) or emerging (naturalistic); (2) the…
Descriptors: Bias, Ideology, Models, Naturalistic Observation
