The paradigms in qualitative research

1. A basis for comprenhension

2. Researcher from different disciplines may have different paradigms.

3. Is the way of viewing reality

4. Main components are:

4.1. Ontology

4.1.1. Methodology

4.1.1.1. Epistemology

4.1.1.2. The branch of philosophy concerned with the origin, nature, methods and limits of knowledge.

4.1.2. Methodology: How we investigate

4.2. Ontology: 'concerned with being' or reality