From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-gwi.net> Subject: BHA: Re: Need Help Fast Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 19:46:29 +0200 Hi Marsh-- > For instance, >under what circumstances does statistical hypothesis testing make sense? >What about surveys, participant observation, etc.? Can CR add something to >these techniques that improves them? Since most of these techniques have >strong empiricist pedigree, does CR's critique of empiricism mean we have to >throw them away? Can we salvage anything from them? Can we come up with CR >criteria with which to evaluate these forms of research? Since Pierre Bourdieu is considered by many to be a critical realist (in spirit anyway), it might make sense to look at his critiques and uses of surveys, statistics, interviews, etc. He discusses this stuff in *Distinction* (and maybe elsewhere), where these techniques also play an important role in substantiating his argument. --- Tobin Nellhaus nellhaus-AT-gwi.net *or* tobin.nellhaus-AT-helsinki.fi "Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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