POSTMODERN SCENARIO

Postmodern Scenario

Postmodern Scenario

Introduction

The following paper addresses the principles of the ontological, axiological, epistemological and methodological assumptions and epistemological paradigms of post positivism and postmodernism. The challenges and strengths associated with these paradigms is considered in relation to the practice, theory and research.

Ontological Assumptions

Ontology is the representative of nature of reality and existence (Ponterotto, 2005). Positivism holds that the laws of nature, derived from data collection and the need for empirically established categories to be done to help explain and predict (Ponterotto, 2005). Postpositivism is the positivism, depending on the purpose of predicting events in the approaches of realism, the ratio ...