HMPYC80 Assignment 1

HMPYC80

ASSIGNMENT 1

ANSWERS AND EXCERPTS FROM THE
CHAPTERS

SECTION A

, ASSIGNMENT 1 : CHAPTERS 1,2 & 3

RESEARCH AT GRASSROOTS

Chapter 1:
Question 1

1. The study of how knowledge, reality and our existence as
human beings evoke questions about who we are, what we
know and how we experience the world around us is known
as ...

1) ontology.
2) paradigm.
3) philosophy.
4) epistemology.

Philosophy is the study of how knowledge, reality and our existence as
human beings evoke questions about who we are, what we know and how
we experience the world around us.




Question 2
1. This underpins philosophies and denotes a certain way of
doing something; it is an example or pattern that
establishes a “disciplinary matrix [or] the practices that
define a scientific discipline at a certain point in time”; it is
a construct that represents an archetype of how professions
achieve what they set out to do at a particular point in time;
and prescribes what is acceptable within a community of
practice or profession.

1) Ontology.
2) Paradigm.
3) Epistemology.
4) Philosophy.

The concept of a paradigm is somewhat contested and described in
many ways