Hello there, I wonder if anyone may help please?
A slightly longwinded introduction (apologies!)
For my PhD I am using two qualitative methodologies sequentially.
Just in case, safety planning is part of risk management in mental health care, but there is debate who determines this safety and how it is defined. For example, Berg, Rørtveit and Aase, (2017) found safety planning (in regard of suicide) could be quite risk adverse for service users in hospital, focusing on limiting life opportunities in case of suicide, whereas service users spoke of suicide risk reducing, when safety planning involved promoting life satisfaction. Hence the rational to explore service user experiences of safety, to strive for a meaningful life outside of healthcare, then examine its potential application to safety planning on a psychiatric ward.
Finally, my question… I was wondering if pragmatism as a philosophical position was suitable to underpin a ‘qual-qual’ research design as it would be with mixed methods. Also, is anyone aware of literature that discusses pragmatism with multimethod (when multimethod is defined as using two methodologies not just qualitative and quantitative).
And if possible a second question, is pragmatism perhaps more of a framework to allow combinations of epistemologies to meet the programmatic goal of the research, or an actual paradigm in itself?
I look forward to any comments, and sorry in advance if I do not respond back straight away.
Thank you.
Kris
Hey Kris!
I would suggest you to refer to these recommendations they would really answer your questions and give you more insight into pragmatism:-
My Article Recommendations:-
1) Article Pragmatism as a Paradigm for Social Research
2)Pragmatism paradigm when adopting mixed methods- http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/115066/3/pragmatism-ijbraf-paper.pdf
3) For Historical review for your query on whether its a separate paradigm - http://www.designfakulteten.kth.se/sites/default/files/designfpragdesignrapport_18.4.pdf
4) Pragmatism vs. interpretivism in qualitative information systems research https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6d3c/20168fcf96de21a9b0bb424a31d3d66d3f24.pdf
5) Giddings, L.S. (2006). Mixed methods research: Positivism dressed in drag? Journal of Research in Nursing, 11(3), 195-203. doi: 10.1177/1744987106064635
Also please checkout these questions and the answers to these they would provide you with a lot of information:-
1)https://www.researchgate.net/post/Pragmatism_Paradigm_has_anyone_adopted_it_in_his_her_thesis
2)https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_there_such_a_thing_as_pragmatic_qualitative_research
Best Wishes!
Hey Anjuman, wow thank you ever so much, all the papers and links look really helpful.
Have a great day!
Anjuman Bains has already recommended my article, " Pragmatism as a Paradigm for Social Research" which is specifically designed to go beyond mixed methods.
As for combining epistemologies, I would hesitate to say that pragmatism subscribes to any of the classic forms of epistemology, since both William James and John Dewey considered pragmatism to be its own unique approach to issues of "truth." Indeed, Dewey refused to use the word truth because it was overly associated with views on epistemology that he explicitly rejected.
Thank you David, your paper was excellent, especially moving away from the notion that pragmatism allows eclecticism, simply to justify methodology, alternatively as noted in your comment above, pragmatism is a philosophical position in itself, seeking understanding 'when experiences are insufficient to inform actions, or what appear to be a suitable assumption fail to produce the expected outcome'. This has been immensely helpful, thank you.
Kris
I would advise you read these two articles, it might help you in some ways. All the best.
Feilzer, M. Y. (2010). Doing mixed methods research pragmatically: Implications for the rediscovery of pragmatism as a research paradigm. Journal of mixed methods research, 4(1), 6-16.
Morgan, D. (2007). Combining qualitative and quantitative methods paradigms lost and pragmatism regained: methodological implications of combining qualitative and quantitative methods. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1(1), 48-76.
Thank you Felicia, also really helpful, apologise for my late response.
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