Hi Terry,
what I meant is that from a social science epistemological position,
rather than a natural sciences-based epistemology, methodology is
not seen as a rigid recipe.
teena
On 09/11/2012, at 2:13 PM, Terence Love wrote:
> 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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> 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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