Re: Re(2): METHOD X METHODOLOGY

From: SANUSI ALENA LEE (sanusi@ucsu.colorado.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 09:18:24 PDT


On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Diane Hodges wrote:

> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
> >How would one differentiate between research and knowledge, if research is
> >knowledge production?
>
> research is the inquiry; what research produces are responses to the
> inquiry (aka "knowledge") -
>
> though we describe it differently, there seems to be a merging of ideas
> about methods as specific techniques (what one relies upon for conducting
> a specific research inquiry) and methodologies as the theoretical agrument
> for a particular technique in the realms of a particular inquiry.
> yes?

Yes. At least for my part -- anyone else with a take?

I'm thick today -- what are we to do with that distinction, now that we
have it, Mike?

--Alena



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