This course is a critical examination of research methods in family studies across various research paradigms (e.g., positivist, post-positivist, interpretive, critical, and poststructural paradigm). The assumptions, values, and commitments of each of these research paradigms is covered, as well as the typical methods and methodologies used and the similarities and divergences between each paradigm, particularly as it pertains to research in family studies. Quantitative and qualitative approaches are covered, as well as brief mentions of those beyond qualitative methods (e.g., arts-based and Indigenist). This course will offer students preliminary understandings of the scientific method and its critiques, as well as how to develop a research question in qualitative and quantitative research, sampling techniques, and ethics in data collection and research in family studies and considerations of methodological rigor and validity.
This course is a critical examination of research methods in family studies across various research paradigms (e.g., positivist, post-positivist, interpretive, critical, and poststructural paradigm). The assumptions, values, and commitments of each of these research paradigms is covered, as well as the typical methods and methodologies used and the similarities and divergences between each paradigm, particularly as it pertains to research in family studies. Quantitative and qualitative approaches are covered, as well as brief mentions of those beyond qualitative methods (e.g., arts-based and Indigenist). This course will offer students preliminary understandings of the scientific method and its critiques, as well as how to develop a research question in qualitative and quantitative research, sampling techniques, and ethics in data collection and research in family studies and considerations of methodological rigor and validity.
