Positivist and Non-Positivist Paradigm in Social Science Research: Conflicting Paradigms or Perfect Partners?

Aliyu, Aliyu Ahmad; Bello, Muhammad Umar; Kasim, Rozilah; Martin, David

doi:10.5539/jms.v4n3p79

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“…Its essential elements are: i) the identification of law and state; ii) the idea that a legal order is a compound of norms, the validity of which relies on a hypothetical basic norm, the Grundnorm; ill) the exclusion of any factual element in the construction of a legal order; and iv) the repudiation of any reference to other non-logical premises, such as morals or natural law. (6) Paradigm study through epistemology aspect shows that the country/nation law and the common law of Indonesia have dualism/objective, which implies that they are not related to each other. Country law has to be objective, impartial, and free of value and bias.…”

Section: Law In the Plural Indonesian Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Ideal Law in Indonesian Pluralistic Society Based on Constructivism Paradigm

Sulistyawan¹

2019

Proceedings of the the First International Conference on Islamic Development Studies 2019, ICIDS 2019, 10 September 2019, Banda

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Indonesia is an archipelago state which has many ethnics, religions, races, ethnicities, and cultures. This diversity shows there is plurality in Indonesia. Such diversity becomes a pride, but it also creates another problem. For example, regarding law issues, there are different treatments toward the citizens that shows the complexity of legal reality. Indonesia has law growth and development locally among its people, for example, customary law or other custom laws. Although law positivism matches the reality of the country's law, which is designed "top-down" and is deterministic and objective for anyone, there are vast imperfect differences in reality. There are many conflicts between the national law and local law, such as the domination of national law over the local law. There are two problems of this paper: First, how is the law in a plurality of Indonesian society reviewed from the paradigmatic study? Second, how is the ideal law in a plurality of Indonesian society based on Constructivism Paradigm? In this paper, the writer was guided by constructivism paradigm by using hermeneutics/dialectic method. The explanation of the Indonesian plural society and the law would be studied paradigmatically. The analysis of this discussion would lead to the answer of necessary "bottom-up" law design through constructivism paradigm, which will deliver harmony in diversity, with a law that is more humanistic and democratic.

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Section: Law In the Plural Indonesian Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Ideal Law in Indonesian Pluralistic Society Based on Constructivism Paradigm

Sulistyawan¹

2019

Proceedings of the the First International Conference on Islamic Development Studies 2019, ICIDS 2019, 10 September 2019, Banda

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“…Research philosophy describes the mode of the development of knowledge and outlines the assumptions thаt dictate how the researcher аpproаches the reseаrch problem (Sаunders, Lewis, & Thornhill, 2016;Aliyu, Bello, Kasim & Martin, 2014). In pursuit of following a scientific method to deduce indices of quality, accessible and a fordable delivery of health services, this study followed a philosophical view of positivism approach.…”

Section: Research Philosophy and Designmentioning

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Analysis of health seeking behaviour on effective delivery of health services under capitation scheme in Kenya

Wangai¹,

Njuguna²,

Ngugi³

2019

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Under capitation health scheme, a member freely selects a health facility from which to seek health services. There is no restriction of the number of times a member seeks health services from the facility within the contract period. This has affected delivery of health service under capitation contracting. This paper documents a quantitative analysis of the effect of health seeking behaviour on effective delivery of health services. Since human behaviour is assumed to be a natural phenomena, a philosophical view of positivism wаs аdopted in this research. Accordingly, a scientific approach was used to deduce the influence of health seeking behaviour on the metrics of effectiveness. Out of 1152 health facilities accredited to offer primary healthcare in Kenya, data was collected from a sample of 297 health units using closed ended questionnaires. Logit regression analysis on the data revealed that congestion in out-patient department had a negative effect on quality of health services delivered but a positive effect on accessibility and affordability of the services. Increased frequency of consultation had a negative effect on all the three measures of effectiveness; quality, accessibility and affordability of health service delivery. Corresponding odds ratios were 0.173, 1.105 and 1.295 respectively.

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“…The positivist paradigm postulates that reality consists of facts that can be objectively measured or observed (Mackenzie and Knipe, 2006). This tradition is rooted in the ontological assumption that reality is independent of the observer (Aliyu et al, 2014).…”

Section: Positioning the Researchmentioning

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Agrarian transformation in Ghana’s Brong Ahafo region: Drivers and outcomes

Boafo¹

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Food and agricultural systems in the global South have undergone recent and significant transformation. Such changes are driven by an array of actors, and alongside social, political and economic forces, including a renewed investment by global development actors following the global agri-food crisis in the mid-2000s. The global agri-food crisis, in particular, is associated with speculations in food and agriculture, alongside the introduction of new modernisation policies and programmesincluding the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. Such interventions are often couched as a response to the challenge of feeding the world's growing population, estimated to reach nine billion by 2050. In Africa, an agricultural transformation is also closely tied to initiatives to modernise agriculture, including expanding export-led agricultural development. Turning to Ghana in particular, market-based and export-led agricultural development policies and narratives have expanded since at least the mid-2000s, incorporating new actors, and extending their local level impacts. During this period, dominant agricultural development narratives framed Ghana's agrarian problems as largely technical and supply-side problems, which could be solved by increasing productivity as well as diversifying into production of export crops, thereby addressing poverty, food insecurity and global market access issues. In particular, the promotion of cashew nut production as export diversification has integrated farmers in the Brong Ahafo Region into the global commodity market. These market-based approaches are shaping agricultural practiceswith outcomes that are transforming agriculture in Ghana, particularly the Brong Ahafo Region. With this as context, this thesis adopts a critical political ecology approach to analyse contemporary processes and outcomes of agricultural transformation in Ghana's Brong Ahafo Region. Political ecology was adopted to render transparent the complex political, economic and sociocultural processes across different global and local scales shaping agricultural transformation in the region, often referred to as the 'breadbasket' of Ghana. The research adopts qualitative methods, including interviews, focus group discussions, observation and policy document analysis, to gather in-depth data on farming systems in the Brong Ahafo Region.

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Positivist and Non-Positivist Paradigm in Social Science Research: Conflicting Paradigms or Perfect Partners?

Cited by 83 publications

References 62 publications

The Ideal Law in Indonesian Pluralistic Society Based on Constructivism Paradigm

The Ideal Law in Indonesian Pluralistic Society Based on Constructivism Paradigm

Analysis of health seeking behaviour on effective delivery of health services under capitation scheme in Kenya

Agrarian transformation in Ghana’s Brong Ahafo region: Drivers and outcomes

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