... first defined by Harris in 1979 as "an epistemology which seeks to restrict fields of inquiry to events, entities and relationships that are knowable by means of explicit, logico-empirical, inductive-deductive, quantifiable public procedures subject to replication by independent observers" (Harris, 1979:27). Peregrine, however, notes that Harris' definition is inherently narrow and does not encompass the majority of anthropological research ... ...

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... be tested. The purpose of using the quantitative method is to validate and test a meaningful proposition. This methodology applies social science theory to the social reality, this is also called deductive logic. Research studies utilising quantitative methodology try to distance themselves from subjectivity although the question is are they able to do so completely? They try to be as objective as ... of research method is psychology and sociology. The qualitative research method on the other hand has for its ultimate purpose a detailed account of the subject being researched. It uses t...

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