TY - JOUR
T1 - Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis
AU - Syed, Moin
AU - Mclean, Kate C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2022/2/10
Y1 - 2022/2/10
N2 - For decades, psychological research has heavily favored quantitative over qualitative methods. One reason for this imbalance is the perception that quantitative methods follow from a post-positivist paradigm, which guides mainstream psychology, whereas qualitative methods follow from a constructivist paradigm. However, methods and paradigms are independent, and embracing qualitative methods within mainstream psychology is one way of addressing the generalizability crisis.
AB - For decades, psychological research has heavily favored quantitative over qualitative methods. One reason for this imbalance is the perception that quantitative methods follow from a post-positivist paradigm, which guides mainstream psychology, whereas qualitative methods follow from a constructivist paradigm. However, methods and paradigms are independent, and embracing qualitative methods within mainstream psychology is one way of addressing the generalizability crisis.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X21000431
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X21000431
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35139943
AN - SCOPUS:85124251180
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 45
SP - 58
EP - 60
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ER -