Organisational Communication Research COM4806
Table of Contents
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... [Show More] INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................... 4
2 QUESTION 1: DIFFERENT PARADIGMATIC POSITIONS..........................................................................5
3 QUESTION2:PARADIGMATIC ASSUMPTIONS....................................................................................7
2.1 The Afrocentric decolonial/indigenous/postcolonial paradigmatic position.......................................7
2.2 The difference between epistemology of positivism and epistemology of interpretivism............8
2.3 Critique the epistemological orientations of both positivism and interpretivism from a
decolonial/indigenous/postcolonial position...........................................................................................8
2.4 Realism and relativism as ontological positions and compare positivism, interpretivism and
critical realism ontologically..................................................................................................................... 9
2.5 The 'relationality' as an ethical framework (axiology) that informs the epistemology and
ontology of decolonial/indigenous/postcolonial paradigmatic positions...............................................10
2.6 The relationship between epistemology and methodology in research.....................................11
4 QUESTION 3: IT'S PERSONAL.............................................................................................................. 12
5 CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................... 13
SOURCES CONSULTED................................................................................................................................ 14 [Show Less]