CHAPTER 8: THE PRAGMATIC PARADIGM

Post positivism, although remaining to a degree true to positivism, accepted the theory ladenness of facts, the value ladenness of inquiry and reality having a constructivist nature (Tashakkori and Teddlie 1998). In turn, the philosophy of post-positivism itself became discredited, and became replaced by constructivism associated with the ... ................
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