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A 3 page paper that discusses the postmodern approach to research including assumptions. The paper comments on conducting a postmodern study on depression. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of values and beliefs as a major element the human experience; an emphasis on meanings drawn from exploring the interior rather than the exterior of events and things; a view
that human experience is unstable, fragmented, contradictory, ambiguous and unfinished, therefore, there is no single reality, and there is no definitive conclusion, rather, the reader must make the connections
themselves. Postmodernism argues there is no ultimate truth about anything. Instead, there are multiple realities that exist concomitantly in different cultural and social contexts (Robertson, 2006). Haosheng (2004) identified
the characteristics of the postmodern approach to psychology as: deconstructive, antirealism, antiscience, critical of essentialism; uses social constructionism as epistemological foundation and explains truth, knowledge and meaning as products of
social construction; language is more than simply a way to express ourselves; shifts from the individual to relationships; focus on a world of social construction; and a move from
empirical studies to discourse analysis. McNabb (2010) reports that the postmodern researcher does not progress from what is believed to be known or the assumptions of something. Concepts that
we typically believe we understand as meaning a specific thing are not simply taken as truth. An idea of any concept is considered to be a construction of human intellect
rather than something that is real (McNabb, 2010). Another premise in this paradigm is that there is no single best way to gain knowledge. One of the things postmodernists believe
is that special interest groups have used all venues to manipulate images of everything, even the social structure (McNabb, 2010). Within the postmodern perspective, this would mean there is no
single ultimate definition of depression, the topic of our teams research study. Yet, depression has been categorized with definitions and symptoms outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
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