p.106 paradigmatic assumptions determine research strategy. According to Lincoln (this
volume): "The adoption of a paradigm literally permeates every act even tangentially associated with inquiry,
such that any consideration even remotely attached to inquiry processes demands rethinking to bring decisions into line with
the worldview embodied in the paradigm itself."
p.114 [McGrath] argues that in designing a study the research seeks to maximize three criteria: generalizability
of findings, precision and control in measurement, and existential realism of what is studied. Unfortunately, the three cannot
be maximized simultaneously... Any criterion can be maximized but only at the expense of the other two.
p.122-123 The key to accommodation among paradigms is rejection of the "queen science" viewpoint that philosophical
first principles must determine methodology. Once one begins to look at what researchers do, the walls between paradigms
start to break down.
