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    The interpretivist research paradigm focuses on understanding meaning and perspective. There are three key aspects: 1) There is no single objective reality, as realities are socially constructed differently by different people. 2) Knowledge is subjective, as realities are constructed through social interactions rather than discovered. The researcher and participants influence each other. 3) Qualitative methods are used to understand the world from the participant's perspective without imposing the researcher's own meanings. The aim is to understand lived experiences in context.

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    InterpretivistResearchParadigm

    DrJacquelynAllenCollinson,Reader,SchoolofSport&ExerciseScience
    Interpretivismfocusesonthecentralityofmeaningandunderstanding(verstehen)
    NBDifferentdisciplinaryunderstandingsofwhatinterpretivismconstitutesmyversionissociological
    1.Ontologicalposition

    Thereexistmultiplerealities.Thereisnooneobjective,universalreality.Theremaybeareality
    outthereexternaltohumansocialactors(weakversion),butwehavenodirectaccesstothis.
    For interprevists at the strong end of the spectrum, there is no reality outside of our social
    constructions(socialconstructionism/constructivism).

    There exist multiple truths there is no objective, universal truth, just contrasting (sometimes
    competing)definitionsoftruth.Peoplemayholdapparentlyconflictingtruthssimultaneously.

    2.Epistemologicalposition

    Subjectivisttheoryofknowledge;noobjectiverealityortruth.

    Reality/realities are constructed by social actors in social interaction; they are subjective,
    multiple,mutable,andcontextdependent.

    Researcherandresearchedmutuallyinfluenceand coconstruct thedata;researchfindingsare


    thus coconstructions, emergent from the interaction, not waiting to be discovered.
    Miner/travellerdistinction(willexplain).

    3.Methodologicalposition

    Qualitative methodology required in order to come to understand participants lifeworlds from


    theirperspective,toavoidimpositionofresearchersmeaninguponher/hisparticipants.

    Emergentresearchdesigncanchangeprocessually.

    Variety of approaches (e.g. auto/ethnography, participant observation, auto/phenomenography,


    visual)andvarietyofmethods(e.g.interviews,focusgroups,documentaryanalysis,photography).

    All research is valueladen; values are inherent and inescapable; our values and social
    characteristicsaffectthestudyfrominceptiontoconclusion.Reflexivityessential.

    The aim of interpretivism and of qualitative research is understanding the lifeworlds and the
    meaningsandunderstandingsofourparticipants(neversubjects)incontext.

    4.Axiologicalissues(ethics)

    Wehaveafundamentaldutyofcaretoourparticipantsbutalsotoourselvesasresearchersand
    tootherresearchers.Thisincludesrepresentationalissuesregardingourdata.

    JAC/December2012

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