Free Psychology Books: Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology, by Carla Willig

Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology, by Carla Willig

How, and what, can we know?
•Positivism
•Empiricism
•Hypothetico-deductivism
•Critique of the ‘scientific method’
•Feminist critique of established epistemologies
•Social constructionism
•Epistemology and methodology
•Qualitative research
•Overview of the book
•Three epistemological questions
•Further reading

‘It involves opening up to new and possibly unsettling experiences.’ ‘It means venturing into new territory.’ ‘It’s discovering something new and exciting; there’s a little bit of danger.’ ‘It is exciting and unusual, out-of-the-ordinary. There’s a big element of enjoyment and there may be an element of challenge. It’s something that will develop me as a person.’ ‘Enid Blyton stories . . . [laughs] . . . It’s exciting, possibly involving a degree of risk to oneself; scary on occasion but it comes out alright at the end. You’re glad you’ve had them.’ ‘An exploration involving new places, meeting new people and having new experiences outside of the norm. These could be both positive and negative in nature.’ ‘Adventures are sudden, surprise events which are pleasurable, because they are unexpected.’ Talk of an ‘adventure’captures the imagination. We want to know what it was like, how it felt, what happened next. We look upon the adventurer as someone who has been changed by the experience, someone who will never be quite the same again.

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