APSY2216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, Postpositivism

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY2216
• Professor: Thomson

Document Summary

Guest speaker today: kevin ferreira, expert on qualitative research. Field notes, conversations, photographs, recordings, memos to the self. Use of interpretive/theoretical frameworks - theory guides your research and how you make sense. Reflexivity - critical reflection of oneself as a researcher and how you impact the data collection of the data you collect. Positivism and postpositivism - one objective reality that can be reduced in a logical way. Social constructivism - multiple truths, it depends on your experience and where you come from. Transformative - concerned with power in social relationships. Pragmatism - truth is what works in that particular moment, focused on outcomes, what is the use. Postcolonialism - comes from an angle of decolonizing what is understood as knowledge. Interpretation/conclusions back to step one to begin a new but related study) Methodological congruence - the fit between your theoretical framework and the approach you are taking.