What is Research?

 

What is Research?

The age of enlightenment 
the process of rationality and reason 


Enlightenment = period in 18thcentury C when scientific/philosophy thinking made leaps and bounds



Secularisation 

Reason rather than Metaphysics 

Belief in a unified scientific method (Scientism) 

Positivism


people believed that research within the art scene wasn't valued as research it wasnt classed as anything important like scientific research was. 


C.P. Snow 

He realised the arts and the sciences were 2 completely different things, they almost spoke 2 different languages, had 2 different values 

Positivism

Research should always lead to positive real outcomes , as a concrete knowable outcome
Research should lead to facts 
Free from value 
Objectivity, should be about measuring  
Facts that speak for themselves 
The research process if controlled and measurable   

Approaches to research

Empiricism, scientific research, setting up a experiment and seeing the outcome 

Quantitative research, 

Qualitative research, is constant, when we receive feedback within class this is qualitative, as well as speaking to anybody about your work outside of university.  

Subjectivism, 



Methodology 

Method, a way of proceeding about something in a systemic or logical manner 

Methodology, the science of method, employed in a particular activity 




Free Nelson Mandela song, created by the specials 

Looking at the story of the song how it was made why it was made changes your whole perception of the song.