Your comments are being sought in regard of research methodology.
Could you explain the meaning of postivist and positivism.
How post positivism is different than the positivism?
Neither in my view are research methodologies - post positivist can mean very different things
I try to discuss this in the context of quantitative methods here :
Chapter The practice of quantitative methods
As mentioned above, Positivism and Post-positivism are not methodologies, but paradigms. This video seems to explain them in a rather simple way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0oQ3a9ATbM
Yes, I agree with Kelvyn Jones and Nicolò Zarotti, these are paradigms. Please find a good website which explains the difference: https://conjointly.com/kb/positivism-and-post-positivism/#:~:text=Positivists%20believed%20that%20objectivity%20was,perfectly%20as%20it%20really%20is.
To me they are philosophies of knowledge- ontology (what exists in the world) and epistemology (how can we know it) and there may be links to methodology. For me there is not a one to one connection between the philosophy and method - in particular quantitative method does not mean a positivist approach to knowing despite what the literature often assumes. I find the term paradigm a bit slippery - it has been claimed that Kuhn used it in 21 different ways in the structure of scientific revolutions!
This chapter discusses positivism, social constructionism and critical realism
https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/28039_02_Alvesson_2e_Ch_02.pdf
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