Dialectics, Power, and Knowledge Construction in Qualitative Research: Beyond Dichotomy

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Adital Ben-Ari Guy Enosh

Dialectics, Power, and Knowledge Construction in Qualitative Research

Beyond Dichotomy

Adital Ben-Ari, Guy Enosh

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Routledge
06 August 2019

Research methods: general

Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

"This book is about going beyond dichotomy. The research literature in social sciences is full of apparent dichotomies such as the dichotomy between: qualitative and quantitative approaches; ""reality"" and ""multiple-realities""; ontology and epistemology; researchers and participants; the right and wrong conduct of research; and sometimes even between the goals of research and the ethics of research.

Throughout the book, it is shown that adopting a dialectical approach, which attempts to integrate apparent contradictions and opposites at a higher level of abstraction, may serve as a way out of the twin horns of such dilemmas. To begin this journey, the authors start with the classical dilemma of the relationship between ""reality"" and ""knowledge"", as a common divide between the quantitative and qualitative epistemological paradigms, and the philosophical assumptions underlying them. To illustrate the understanding of the relationship between knowledge and reality, metaphors of ""maps and territories"" are used as a framework for the dialectical construction of knowledge.

This book will be valuable to a diverse readership, including scholars interested in epistemology and philosophy of science and research methods, mainly from qualitative traditions. It will also be of interest to quantitative researchers as well, including supervisors of graduate students, lecturers and, most importantly, students and researchers-to-be."

By: Adital Ben-Ari, Guy Enosh
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780415833400
ISBN 10: 041583340X
Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods
Pages: 94
Publication Date: 06 August 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. The map is not the territory - From ontology to epistemology in knowledge construction 2. Dialectics: A mechanism of knowledge construction 3. Reflectivity reconsidered 4. Reflectivity and the researchers' perspective 5. Reflectivity and the participants' perspective 6. Ethical differences and similarities as sources of reflection and knowledge construction 7. Research relations and power differentials: from resistance to collaboration and in-between 8. Frames of reference and the control of knowledge 9. Reciprocity: the nature and attributes of research relations and power 10. Epilogue: From dialectics to dialog across liminal spaces

Adital Ben-Ari is a professor of social work at the School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Israel. Guy Enosh is an associate professor of social work at the School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Israel.