Problem:
I am interested in studying the interactions and relationships between parents and children when the child is attending counseling for behavioral concerns or emotional dysregulation. I am interested in the differences in mood, affect, and communication that can be achieved for parents bringing their children to counseling when the parent spends time with a dog prior to a family session.
Based on the assigned readings for this discussion, specifically Chapter 2 of Research Design and Methods, I find myself solidly in the Relativist-Constructivist category (Burkholder et al, 2019). I think truth is not singular and is co-created by interaction. At first, I struggled to understand the various theories and how they align with specific ontologies and epistemologies. I am grateful for the table in chapter 2, which helped organize the information in a way that made sense to my brain (Burkholder et al, 2019).
I am interpreting ontology as helping researchers to figure out what is truth. For Relativist Constructivism, ontology is the creation of a truth, not the truth, through the interaction of people. Epistemology is the idea that knowledge is a social construct, and facts are meaningless without the interactions of people to develop meaning or value.
Respond to a classmate who holds a different philosophical orientation than you and share an insight. Need Assignment Help?
References:
Babbie, E. (2017). Basics of social research (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Burkholder, G. J., Cox, K. A., Crawford, L. M., & Hitchcock, J. H. (Eds.). (2020). Research designs and methods: An applied guide for the scholar-practitioner . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.