Foundations of Inquiry: Linking Paradigms and Methodologies in Social Research - Softcover

Zhao, Guoping; Bailey, Lucy E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1071846078 ISBN 13: 9781071846070

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2025

Synopsis

When researchers adopt a methodology, they bring to their research the theoretical assumptions infused within that methodology, and the paradigm that shapes that methodology describes their view of social life. This book is about paradigms and how they connect to methodologies. The authors explore a rich body of paradigms and how they support different methodologies and connect to designing and carrying out research. The book includes clear explanations of complex material, a thorough development of established paradigms and discussion of contemporary ones such as general interpretivism, critical race theory, and Indigenous orientations. The book′s pedagogy includes examples of published research, discussion of the issues related to each paradigm and the connections between them, and review questions and prompts to help deepen understanding.

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About the Authors

Guoping Zhao is a Professor at Oklahoma State University, USA. She works in the fields of continental philosophy, comparative philosophy, philosophy of education, and theoretical foundations of inquiry. She is the author of Subjectivity and Infinity: Time and Existence (2020, Palgrave MacMillan), the editor of Levinas and the Philosophy of Education (2018, Routledge), and the co-editor of Re-Envisioning Chinese Education: The Meaning of Person-Making in a New Age (2015, Routledge).

Lucy E. Bailey is professor at Oklahoma State University and Director of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies. She conducts research and teaches in the fields of qualitative methodologies, feminist and diversity studies, and foundations of education. She is co-editor of the Research in Life Writing and Education book series (Emerald Press) and has published co-edited books on race and life writing, educational embodiment, and women’s civil war letter writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1071846078
• ISBN 13: 9781071846070
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344