Hi Teena,
You wrote, ' Of course, this position is not complementary to that of most
science- based epistemologies'
I'm wondering why you think that? Why is it different in any way?
It seems the 'doxy' in 'methodoxy' means teaching (from the greek 'doxa').
As I understand it, 'a methodoxy' is a particular body of methods that were
taught together. For example, the rules for the card games 'rummy', 'crib'
and 'blackjack' taught to any young male in mining pubs in Manchester, taken
together are a 'methodoxy' of Manchester pub card games. Is that how others
view it?
Cheers,
Terry
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To: Dr Terence Love
Subject: Re: Research through design - methodological issues
Hi all,
> As for research through design that Kari brought out, it depends more
> in what I called years ago methodoxies. I still feel that a
> methodology on design or of design is useless as a science. I think
> that it is more useful to understand the set of methods in which some
> "societies" of design namely schools and professional practitioners
> believe or believed in. Obviously that the Design Methods Movement
> defined a methodoxy and not a methodology, for instance.
I see methodology as the rationale one makes for the choice and use of
particular methods of data collecting and analysis for a particular research
task. In other words, the argument the researcher makes about how the
methods they used/will use are the best way to conduct this task in order to
address the research questions. It is more a kind of how and why I did/will
do it this way, rather than a rigid 'recipe' that an 'oxy' suggests. The
emphasis therefore, is epistemological - how one argues their methodological
case, and to whom, as Eduardo's post suggests. I have included a useful
reference for this social sciences view (Mason 1998).
Of course, this position is not complementary to that of most science- based
epistemologies.
cheers, teena
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