The Learning Resources in this first week will help you answer these questions, and they will provide you with a foundation in the philosophy of science that will help you appreciate various research designs and methods. With this foundation, you will be encouraged to reflect on how your assumptions about the acquisition of truth and the nature of the world influence your approach to the research process.
For this Discussion, you will identify an area of interest for a possible research topic. As you read about the different philosophical orientations in this week’s readings, consider if one of these orientations most closely aligns with your worldview and a particular approach to research.
With these thoughts in mind:
Post a brief description of your topic of research interest. Next, state the philosophical orientation that reflects your worldview and explain the epistemological and ontological assumptions of this orientation. Then, explain how these assumptions lend themselves to one or more research approaches.
Be sure to support your Main Issue Post and Response Post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.
My topic is stereotyping, and i have to use the following required readings which i will attach:
Babbie, E. (2017). Basics of social research (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Burkholder, G. J., Cox, K. A., Crawford, L. M., & Hitchcock, J. H. (Eds.). (2020). Research designs and methods: An applied guide for the scholar-practitioner. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Chapter 1, “Introduction to Research”
Chapter 2, “Philosophical Foundations and the Role of Theory in Research”
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Stereotyping is an interesting research topic owing to the complexities involved from sociological and psychological perspectives. As such, the underlying research paradigms must embody the uniqueness of the research topic. The interpretivist paradigm provides a refreshing approach to understanding stereotyping, considering that it is an issue that develops under psychological and sociological influences from human interactions. Stereotyping is a sensitive subject, and as such, it is reckless to assume that one can develop an objective perspective on the issues and then castigate other views as subjective. Recognizing each research process’s subjectivity promotes higher critiques of these processes and increases their quality of research.
