Research philosophies are so complicated in books. But in real life they are so easy to understand. According to Prof. Stevenson in Cambridge university, He told us "Do not waste your time in reading millions of books in research methodologies, just read PhDs and top journal papers". And he is right; Ontology is a sophisticated concept. But I want to know how can I use it in my research. That is why I am trying to simplify as much as I can to be relevant to our research objectives.
I am doing my dissertation for masters in project management and was really struggling to put this together but with Amgad's videos I think I can see light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you a million. This video and others were so helpful to me.
It is so helpful, so clearly differentiated and explained! I am trying to approach my master thesis for a long time and this one video clarified so many things. Brilliant! Thanks a lot!
Mate this is great. I'm a researcher and analyst and have been trying to think of a way to present methodology with regard to questions of what we can know and where certain methods may be appropriate. Really great stuff and much appreciate.
شرح حضرتك أكثر من رائع ماشاء الله تبارك الله ربنا يبارك في حضرتك ويجزيك خير ، حاولت اقرأ كتب وافهم الاشياء دي وفيديوهات اخري ، لكن ماشاء الله اعطلك الله موهبة توصيل المعلومة بسهولة ويسر
If you need one to one help, I charge 40 GBP per hour offer one-to-one help and 2 GBP for reading each page. I do not write (no writing service) to anyone. I just offer counseling. I can help in research methodology, literature review, and analysis. Furthermore, I offer regular meeting with PhD and master students to follow up with them If you are interested please contact me. Skype: amgad_1985
Sir here I am really having economical problem. You can't believe that how I struggled to get admission for M.Phil, P.hd. I brought up in one orphaage home (SOS Children's village). I heard that if you share your knowldge without any term and condition then it would expand you more with dignity. SO please consider me as exceptional case.
Amgad Badewi Hello there, I have enjoyed your videos and thank you for the help. If you were to write a paper on the inpact of drones (uavs) on the land surveying industry this would be an objective approach ? collecting data on time and man power for example. Would I need to do interviews and questionaires or just analysis existing data? if you could give me your quick thoughts on this, i would sincery be greatful. Sam
Hi Amgad Badewi .. im a MSc student and id like to thank you for your video my friend .. it helped me understand and successfully pass my Advanced Methods of Enquiry subject :) Cheers
Well done, Sir. I really appreciate. You not only elucidated the philosophical concepts and approaches in a very easy-to-understand way but also induced my deep interest to learn more. Thank you, indeed.
As a Chinese student, I feel the explanation is more accepting than many English native teachers produce, though I listened to a lot of times to grab the accents; however, it worths. Huge thanks.
I missed an online class on epistemology due to some tech issues and decided to hook up here to fill the gap; guess what? I learnt a lot even more than what I would have learnt from my online class. Thanks for sharing.
This is REALLY helpful. I was really confused about the relationship between those terms and now you have painted a very clear picture. This is so much better than what my university does. The more I read the text they provide, the more confused I became. Thank you very much :D
Positive research means "testing a theory research". It is used mainly if you have an idea in your mind and you want to test what you hypothis. It could using qualitative inquiry such as interview or quantitative form such as questionnaire. But positive approach believes that the reality is not existed in the minds of people nor the research. What we do in positive research is to try to test relationships (test propositions) in order to validate the idea (The theory).
Superb distinction, differences are now concrete in my mind, l m now able to remind my research advisor which track we are on...The problem solving track and not the empiricist track. I certainly will cite your valuable insight. Thank you.
I am into qualitative research my friend, but it is just so mind blowing to listen to your lectures. And I am amazed how you make difficult concepts so easy to understand.
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Salam Alikum, My Brother Ahmed introduced me to your video series. They are incredible. Unfortunately, I am now in the final year of my PhD and very close to submission. I wish I would have watched these YEARS ago. Coverage is very in-depth, but is at a pace that's purely accessible. After watching these videos, I am almost ashamed to call myself a PhD student. Thank you so much for your time and effort. PEACE!
Thank you Jonavan Barnes for your trust. I'd like to clarify an important principle of research methodology science. There is no clear cut right and wrong. As long as the logic used is logical and helpful, it could help you to create knowledge. What I am trying to do is to find out how good PhDs are conducted then I took the similarities to build my knowledge. I went through many books and papers in RM to understand the underpinning philosophies of these PhDs. Simply, this is my RM to present my ideas :) Shad Sylla
Subjectivism is the contrary to Objectivism. That is way, it is traditionally considered as a dimension of Qualitative Research (Interpretive Paradigm). Because you interpret the reality from your background and from your observations. In contrast, Objectivism, the researcher is out of the research and he should not intervene the results. Researcher uses the objective techniques to analyse the data (statistics)
Very clear explanations which have assisted me immensely. Thank you. However I can't agree that you can only fill a knowledge gap using quantitative research. Nor do I agree that the literature review is less important for qualitative studies.
May be there is a misunderstanding. In positive research, literature review has two functions: identification of knowledge gap and development of theoritical framework. In contrast, in interpretive research, literature review is conducted to identify knowledge gap and keeps you know what is happen around you. This different orientation toward "the function of literature review" makes literature review is a critical part in positive research and is a less critical part in interpretive one
Dear Amgad, Alssalamu Alicum. I am unable to thanks you about this interesting topic. thank you very much indeed. It is really clear, understood and helpful. All the best, Jazak Allah khair
You are just best sir, it's comprehensible enough and am so happy to learn here because its hard to meet the lecturers on campus and my studies are only in my second language of which am not literate in
I have always considered that there are only two problems in philosophy; the big one, episte, and ethics. I have never had a clue what metaphysics was. Now I know. There is no such thing. Remnants of Plato's theory of forms (an ancient view of the world), the mind/body problem (might have been a problem with Hobbs and Descartes but it is the discipline of neorologists today rather than a philosophical problem) and causality (already solved by Hume). As you point out it is just the book that follows Aristotle's book on physics but has no new material problems. Kant also considered that there were only two problems; episte and ethics. What he termed pure and practical reason and he made a massive contribution to solving both. Both problems have now been solved. Popper has solved the episte problem and law making is not done by reference to Bentham or Kant but by parliament (with debate and scrutiny, consultation with stakeholders, first and second readings, ammendments and second chamber review). I am a big champion of discipline (every other enquiry is a discipline) as in going forward and standing on the shoulders of giants and seeing further. When someone mentions empiricism, rationalism, analytical, continental, ontology, existentialism, phenominology, posivitism and any number or other evolutionary dead-ends I want to scream. Its a discipline stupid. We stand on the shoulders of giants and see further. If others think it is OK to mention seventeenth century empiricism then should we also include animism as a valid here and now talking point. No we should not. We go forward.
Hi Dr Amgad, if in interpretivist research LR is not important "at all" according to you, how do you develop research aims & objectives? As in, if you are not adding to any knowledge, why would you do a PhD? Without extensive LR, you cannot have research gaps identified. Without the gap, what will you be studying and with what RQ will you have? I am confused by the paradigms.
Dear Amgad, great work ! Your explanations are very lucid and they spur an interest in me to delve deeper into the topic. Please keep up the good work. Best wishes.
Assalaam U Alaikum brother Eid Mubarak It was an immense pleasure to discover and learn from you. May Almighty brings more happiness and blessings in all what you are doing to the community.
Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahai Wa Barakatahu. I have a seminar tomorrow and was still confused about Ontology and Epistemology and you cleared them up for me. Jazak Allah Khair.
Thank you so much for the lecture videos. Ive been having a hard time reading and understanding my research methodology class notes. This is really simplified and easy to understand. Great job.
Awesome work!!! :) Thanks so much for making this! I just started my research methods course and felt so lost initially and this helped a lot. You rock!
Great explanation of such a difficult topic area. I also note that your lecture is an excellent example of learning through variation - Variation Theory of Learning, by Ferrence Marton- where concepts cannot be understood until contrasted with others. thank you.
Very good explained! Do you have another video where the research does not follow the traditional approach following on the Positivism or the Interpretism all the way? Meaning a mix method where the elements of them are combined?
Javier Fajardo The next session will be how to write literature review in each paradigm. It will be followed by modern research paradigms (Mixed methods- mixed paradigm - mixed methodology)
Asalamu Aleykum Brother. Alhamdulillah for having you. i have seen one of your video lecture on introduction part. it seems very help full would give the link to full lecture or would you mail me? Jazakom Allah Khairan too
Actually, if you are "problem solving" oriented, you need to define the problem and how can you approach it before conducting literature review. many PhD dissertations follow this school. For Example, search for Eckartz Dissertation in Twente university. Literature review in this case come as a part of research methodology (in understanding the problem context). On the other hand, filling knowledge gap school prefers literature review first to define the problem before developing methodology.
My religion, Islam, pushes me to learn and search for the truth. I do not see any clash with my religion; rather, I see my religion complement research methodologies. Islam is a religion of "Evidences". Think about Islam, and you will see Islam always pushes the person to search for the "reality" and for the "truth" using "evidences". :) have a nice weekend :) Cheers
I am sorry for my late answers. There are two types of Ethnography research: Overt and Covert. However, at the end of your research, in the case of doing overt research, you must get acceptance from the observed cases that you can utilize the results you obtained. My personal advice, obtain parents' consent before starting your research is better and more ethical than observing their children without letting them know. Talk to them honestly and frankly and I do not think they will refuse :)
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Great class. I´m preparing my class to introduction to psychological research and your notes are precise- thanks :) Greetings from Peru and Australia :)
On a new birth of philosophy from the ashes of materialism Materialism is the doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications. This doctrine in its modern form seems to have originated from the secular philosophers of the Enlightenment, and from the writings of Voltaire and others seems to have become established in western thinking together with the secularization of society and its opposition to the power of the Church. The critical turn of thinking appears to have been due to an incompleteness in the metaphysics of Descartes. Descartes, for all of his originality and brilliance, overlooked the integration of mind and body, as noted by Leibniz, by dividing reality into two completely distinct realms, one of extension (the body) and one of mind, which is non-extended. This worked out well in practice, by accomodating Newton's new mechanics, since his mechanics only apparently dealt with the physical world, and freed science from dealing with mind (and divinity) by simply ignoring it. Today,with the advent of quantum mechanics, we know that this is not true, for quanta are mental, not physical, since they are not independently in spacetime. In materialistic thinking, the mind is a product of the brain and controlled by it. This however cannot explain intentional acts, which originate in mind. It also allows materialistic thinkers to ignore concepts such as the soul or divinity, giving justification for secularism, and opening up the possibility of dialectical materialism. Leibniz pointed out that matter, since causality must be mental and not physical (since there are no such physical entities as momentum, for example) must have some mental correspondent. Leibniz called this mental correspondent the monad. An example of a monad is a quantum. Another serious problem with materialism is that physical entities in spacetime are contingent, meaning that they are not permanent and fixed, as Bertrand Russell thought they were in his theory of descriptions. They are thus poor, ephemeral referents, since they both move and continually change. An example of a possible correction to materialism is given below, although obviously others might be able to do better. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The three levels of reality in platonic physics FIRSTNESS -FIRST PERSON (I) -Mind- The One, the Monarch- this is the topdown, cybernetic realm of Plato's Mind. It is in fact life itself, pure nonphysical intelligence. Purely subjective, timeless and spaceless - with innate knowledge and a priori memory, containing the pre-established harmony, necessary logic, numbers - the womb of the WHAT. Mind creates all, perceives all, controls all. Thus the individual mind controls the brain, not the reverse. Mind plays the brain like a violin. SECONDNESS - SECOND PERSON (YOU RIGHT HERE) Relational. Mental objects so both subjective +objective- The Many. In this, the WHAT separates from Mind and becomes a HERE. Accordingly. Heidegger referred to existence as "dasein". "Being here." On the other hand, Meinong referred to such mental objects as “sosein”. Being as. Some of these objects, such as ideas, or mathematics, are not monads, since they have no corresponding physical bodies. Our personal minds (small m) are made up of intentional objects (Secondnesses). Similarly, Russell did not accept the importance of Mind and its cybernetic, topdown control by thought of all knowledge into two forms: a) Public or descriptive knowledge, of Mind, and b) Personal knowledge, expiences of individual minds (small m), which is knowledge by acquaintance. Both of these forms are inherent in Leibniz's metaphysics. Thus Russell's analytic philosophy only treats of a) the larger, public knowledge of Mind, while all of our individual contents of mind (small m) are type b), personal knowledge, experiential knowledge, knowledge byacquaintance. In contrast, both Brentano and Meinong, no doubt because they were psychologists, were more interested in and studied b) rather than a). The objects of b) are objects of personal intention, as is all thought. So Secondness might be said to consists of two two types of mental objects, i) nonmonadic intendeds and ii) monads. According to Leibniz, all monads are alive to various degrees. There are of three gradations of life in these, according to Leibniz: a) Bare, naked monads, which we can think of as purely physical ( Eg, a fundamental particle). b) Animal and vegetative monads, which Leibniz calls souls, which can have feelings, but little intellect. c) Spirits (corresponding to humans), which have, in addition, intellectual capacities. Mind transforms physical signals in nerves and neurons into experiences. If Mind then apperceives or reflects on these experiences, they are said to be though gt or apperceived. To be apperceived is to be made conscious. Thus consciousness is the product of thought. Intentions are also made in the same way, so that we caqn say that thoughts are intentions by Mind. The human brain is a monad which contains as subsets, mental capacities. Neuroscience tells us that there is binding between monads for parts and functions of the brain, but since monads cannot act directly on each other, this binding must be indirect, through the sequential updates of the perceptions and appetites of the subfunction monads. These must be made by Mind, either directly or through the preestablished harmony PEH). Unfortunately the Stanford Leibniz site on Leibniz makes no mention of the action of Mind on the individual mind, IMHO a gross shortcoming. Sensory signals and signals for feelings must also go through such a binding process. In a sense, the binding process plays the role of a self, but in conventional neuroscience self is a function of the brain, rather than the other way round, as common sense suggests and the intentionality of self or mind proves, along with the need for a PEH. This shortcoming in conventional understanding of the brain becomes all the more nagging if we consider thinking, which is closely related to apperception, because it must be conscious.Thinking, we submit, consists of consciously manipulating and comparing such apperceptions. Through Mind, with its potentially infinite wisdom and intelligence, intuitions and thoughts can arise spontaneously in the individual mind. If these are to be immediate and/or original, it is reasonable to believe that they originate in Mind, rather than indirectly through separate although bound parts of the brain. Anyone who has experienced a vocal duet in which the vibratos are in phase should become convinced of this. Mind is the monarch of the intelligent mind, which controls the brain. Mind plays the brain like a violin. Mind is also is able to focus on a thought for a brief period, within the context of one's memory and universal memory, for purposes of thinking an comparison, making the biological brain and its complex bindings seem hopelessly indirect and subject to confusion. THIRDNESS - THIRD PERSON (IT OVER THERE) Corresponding physical objects as is appropriate- -here the object is born or emittted from the monad--and emerges into spacetime as a particle, becoming completely objective, a WHAT+ HERE +WHEN., In addition the Thirdness of a private thought or experience is its public expression in some appropriate form. 3. Conclusions This format allows us to examine quantum phenomena from inside out and perception, thinking and consciousness ontologically- from physical nerve signals to mental experiences such as thought, consciousness, and cognition. It also avoids problem encountered in “bottom-up” science, such as complexity and emergence, if for no other reason than there is no apparent way of conceiving of a singular control point at the bottom. -- Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (retired, 2000). See my Leibniz site: rclough@verizon.academia.edu/RogerClough For personal messages use rclough@verizon.net
Research philosophies are so complicated in books. But in real life they are so easy to understand. According to Prof. Stevenson in Cambridge university, He told us "Do not waste your time in reading millions of books in research methodologies, just read PhDs and top journal papers". And he is right; Ontology is a sophisticated concept. But I want to know how can I use it in my research. That is why I am trying to simplify as much as I can to be relevant to our research objectives.
Amgad Badewi دكتور هل يمكن ترسل لي بريدك الالكتروني حتى اتمكن من مراسلتك؟
sir kindly refer only one book or few papers to understand the concept of these paradigms
In one sentence "get to the point" loved your way of explaining it's simple and very productive for me .thankyou so much sir.
You are most welcome
I could not imagine the better way of explaining complex constructs in such an easy way. Thank you very much!
I am very happy to know that. Thanks a lot
I am doing my dissertation for masters in project management and was really struggling to put this together but with Amgad's videos I think I can see light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you a million. This video and others were so helpful to me.
It is so helpful, so clearly differentiated and explained!
I am trying to approach my master thesis for a long time and this one video clarified so many things. Brilliant! Thanks a lot!
Mate this is great. I'm a researcher and analyst and have been trying to think of a way to present methodology with regard to questions of what we can know and where certain methods may be appropriate. Really great stuff and much appreciate.
Thank you for this! I was so confused about all the terminology, but after this explanation it is a lot clearer.
Thank you very much I was lost in definitions, you explained everything using simple examples and cleared everything up !
Thank you so much. I am very pleased to know that.
شرح حضرتك أكثر من رائع ماشاء الله تبارك الله
ربنا يبارك في حضرتك ويجزيك خير ، حاولت اقرأ كتب وافهم الاشياء دي وفيديوهات اخري ، لكن ماشاء الله اعطلك الله موهبة توصيل المعلومة بسهولة ويسر
حضرتك مثال رائع للمسلم بالتزامك بدينك ، وبعلمك ماشاء الله .بارك الله فيك يارب
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I can help in research methodology, literature review, and analysis.
Furthermore, I offer regular meeting with PhD and master students to follow up with them
If you are interested please contact me.
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Thank you sir, I need your help to understand it in application so please give me your mail ID through which I can send you my question
Sir here I am really having economical problem. You can't believe that how I struggled to get admission for M.Phil, P.hd. I brought up in one orphaage home (SOS Children's village). I heard that if you share your knowldge without any term and condition then it would expand you more with dignity. SO please consider me as exceptional case.
Amgad Badewi Hello there, I have enjoyed your videos and thank you for the help. If you were to write a paper on the inpact of drones (uavs) on the land surveying industry this would be an objective approach ? collecting data on time and man power for example. Would I need to do interviews and questionaires or just analysis existing data? if you could give me your quick thoughts on this, i would sincery be greatful. Sam
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Hi Amgad Badewi .. im a MSc student and id like to thank you for your video my friend .. it helped me understand and successfully pass my Advanced Methods of Enquiry subject :) Cheers
I am really pleased to know that :)
Well done, Sir. I really appreciate. You not only elucidated the philosophical concepts and approaches in a very easy-to-understand way but also induced my deep interest to learn more. Thank you, indeed.
As a Chinese student, I feel the explanation is more accepting than many English native teachers produce, though I listened to a lot of times to grab the accents; however, it worths. Huge thanks.
great. I studied all day long but couldn't understand but your videos taught me all that i wanted
Great, very clear. You're an excellent teacher.
Thanks a lot Ian :)
I missed an online class on epistemology due to some tech issues and decided to hook up here to fill the gap; guess what? I learnt a lot even more than what I would have learnt from my online class. Thanks for sharing.
This is REALLY helpful. I was really confused about the relationship between those terms and now you have painted a very clear picture. This is so much better than what my university does. The more I read the text they provide, the more confused I became. Thank you very much :D
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these terms have been confusing, but you helped me to understand them without much hustle. A huge big thank you.
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Never comment of UA-cam but found this so useful and clear to what can sometimes seem like a difficult topic.
Positive research means "testing a theory research". It is used mainly if you have an idea in your mind and you want to test what you hypothis. It could using qualitative inquiry such as interview or quantitative form such as questionnaire. But positive approach believes that the reality is not existed in the minds of people nor the research. What we do in positive research is to try to test relationships (test propositions) in order to validate the idea (The theory).
Awesome. Thank you for explaining so simply what I have been struggling to understand for 6 months!
Thank you from Kenya! This has really simplified the sophisticated PhD research jargons. May Allah bless you!
Superb distinction, differences are now concrete in my mind, l m now able to remind my research advisor which track we are on...The problem solving track and not the empiricist track. I certainly will cite your valuable insight. Thank you.
I am into qualitative research my friend, but it is just so mind blowing to listen to your lectures. And I am amazed how you make difficult concepts so easy to understand.
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Salam Alikum,
My Brother Ahmed introduced me to your video series. They are incredible. Unfortunately, I am now in the final year of my PhD and very close to submission. I wish I would have watched these YEARS ago. Coverage is very in-depth, but is at a pace that's purely accessible. After watching these videos, I am almost ashamed to call myself a PhD student. Thank you so much for your time and effort.
PEACE!
Jonavan Barnes Amazing words. Thank you very much.
Is every thing that he's saying acurate? Because it doesn't seem that way. I'm not an expert or anything but somethings seem off
Yes... it is.
Thank you Jonavan Barnes for your trust. I'd like to clarify an important principle of research methodology science. There is no clear cut right and wrong. As long as the logic used is logical and helpful, it could help you to create knowledge. What I am trying to do is to find out how good PhDs are conducted then I took the similarities to build my knowledge. I went through many books and papers in RM to understand the underpinning philosophies of these PhDs. Simply, this is my RM to present my ideas :) Shad Sylla
Easy. Well presented. Thank you. Saved me tons of boring pages.
Very well explained. I could not understand this anywhere else, but you made it easy. Thank you.
I hope you liked it, Cheers :)
Subjectivism is the contrary to Objectivism. That is way, it is traditionally considered as a dimension of Qualitative Research (Interpretive Paradigm). Because you interpret the reality from your background and from your observations. In contrast, Objectivism, the researcher is out of the research and he should not intervene the results. Researcher uses the objective techniques to analyse the data (statistics)
Tomorrow i have a test about research methods, after seeing this i finally have the feeling I'll pass. Thank you very much Sir.
I am very happy for knowing that. please I am waiting your scores which I am sure it will be perfect :)
Very talented teacher. You are amazing and teach in a very simple and well organized way.
Thank you
Very clear explanations which have assisted me immensely. Thank you. However I can't agree that you can only fill a knowledge gap using quantitative research. Nor do I agree that the literature review is less important for qualitative studies.
May be there is a misunderstanding. In positive research, literature review has two functions: identification of knowledge gap and development of theoritical framework. In contrast, in interpretive research, literature review is conducted to identify knowledge gap and keeps you know what is happen around you. This different orientation toward "the function of literature review" makes literature review is a critical part in positive research and is a less critical part in interpretive one
Dear Amgad,
Alssalamu Alicum. I am unable to thanks you about this interesting topic. thank you very much indeed. It is really clear, understood and helpful.
All the best,
Jazak Allah khair
يعطيك العافية تسلم على مجهودك مفيد جداً بطريقة سهلة وبسيطة
You are just best sir, it's comprehensible enough and am so happy to learn here because its hard to meet the lecturers on campus and my studies are only in my second language of which am not literate in
Hello Amgad, you are very good, you made Research easy for me. Thanks
I am finding these presentations very useful in breaking down the concepts to process my own research. Thank you.
God bless you! I was struggling with this.
Amazing!
Made stuff that sounded very difficult simple, thank you so much
You're very welcome!
I have always considered that there are only two problems in
philosophy; the big one, episte, and ethics. I have never had a clue
what metaphysics was. Now I know. There is no such thing. Remnants of
Plato's theory of forms (an ancient view of the world), the mind/body
problem (might have been a problem with Hobbs and Descartes but it is
the discipline of neorologists today rather than a philosophical
problem) and causality (already solved by Hume). As you point out it
is just the book that follows Aristotle's book on physics but has no
new material problems.
Kant also considered that there were only two problems; episte and
ethics. What he termed pure and practical reason and he made a massive
contribution to solving both.
Both problems have now been solved. Popper has solved the episte
problem and law making is not done by reference to Bentham or Kant but
by parliament (with debate and scrutiny, consultation with
stakeholders, first and second readings, ammendments and second
chamber review).
I am a big champion of discipline (every other enquiry is a
discipline) as in going forward and standing on the shoulders of
giants and seeing further. When someone mentions empiricism,
rationalism, analytical, continental, ontology, existentialism,
phenominology, posivitism and any number or other evolutionary
dead-ends I want to scream. Its a discipline stupid. We stand on the
shoulders of giants and see further. If others think it is OK to
mention seventeenth century empiricism then should we also include
animism as a valid here and now talking point. No we should not. We go
forward.
بارك الله فيك و جزاك خيراً
Thank You
Hi Dr Amgad, if in interpretivist research LR is not important "at all" according to you, how do you develop research aims & objectives? As in, if you are not adding to any knowledge, why would you do a PhD? Without extensive LR, you cannot have research gaps identified. Without the gap, what will you be studying and with what RQ will you have? I am confused by the paradigms.
Thank You very very much! You explained it in a simple way, loved it!
God Bless You!!
الله يجعلها في موازين حسناتك
Thank you so much. I hope you watch my other videos also :)
Research and God HMMMMM
Dear Amgad, great work !
Your explanations are very lucid and they spur an interest in me to delve deeper into the topic.
Please keep up the good work. Best wishes.
Assalaam U Alaikum brother
Eid Mubarak
It was an immense pleasure to discover and learn from you. May Almighty brings more happiness and blessings in all what you are doing to the community.
Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahai Wa Barakatahu. I have a seminar tomorrow and was still confused about Ontology and Epistemology and you cleared them up for me. Jazak Allah Khair.
Amina Ibrahim-Ali I am very happy that you found this session useful
Amgad you're a boss. helped me big time with my qualitative research report.
I am proud of my beard. I do as prophets do, at least in my face :)
اذا كنت صح يهمك بلدك والباحثين العرب كنت شرحت بالعربي. لكن انت همك الشهرة والاجانب 😢
proud of being muslim and my aim is to help others when they need me
May Allah reward you for it.
سندريلا ooo الحلقات للطلبة اللي بيعملوا دكتوراة بالانجليزي
الدكتور شرحه اكثر من رائع ماشاء الله تبارك الله
I don't see a beard on your profile pic though
Thank thank. This is a wonderful resource. So simple to understand for my students.
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Great job Akhi, keep up the good work. The Muslim nation needs researchers and academicians like who are part of the solution not probelm.
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Great explanation of such a difficult topic area. I also note that your lecture is an excellent example of learning through variation - Variation Theory of Learning, by Ferrence Marton- where concepts cannot be understood until contrasted with others. thank you.
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Very good explained! Do you have another video where the research does not follow the traditional approach following on the Positivism or the Interpretism all the way? Meaning a mix method where the elements of them are combined?
Javier Fajardo The next session will be how to write literature review in each paradigm. It will be followed by modern research paradigms (Mixed methods- mixed paradigm - mixed methodology)
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Mark Quinton if you need any further explanation, do not hesitate to ask.
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Actually, if you are "problem solving" oriented, you need to define the problem and how can you approach it before conducting literature review. many PhD dissertations follow this school. For Example, search for Eckartz Dissertation in Twente university. Literature review in this case come as a part of research methodology (in understanding the problem context).
On the other hand, filling knowledge gap school prefers literature review first to define the problem before developing methodology.
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My religion, Islam, pushes me to learn and search for the truth. I do not see any clash with my religion; rather, I see my religion complement research methodologies. Islam is a religion of "Evidences". Think about Islam, and you will see Islam always pushes the person to search for the "reality" and for the "truth" using "evidences". :) have a nice weekend :) Cheers
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I am sorry for my late answers. There are two types of Ethnography research: Overt and Covert. However, at the end of your research, in the case of doing overt research, you must get acceptance from the observed cases that you can utilize the results you obtained. My personal advice, obtain parents' consent before starting your research is better and more ethical than observing their children without letting them know. Talk to them honestly and frankly and I do not think they will refuse :)
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Thank you :) I wish you can watch my last video ( Research Question, Methodology, and paradigm)
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On my channel. Literature review playlist
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On a new birth of philosophy from the ashes of materialism
Materialism is the doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications.
This doctrine in its modern form seems to have originated from the secular philosophers of the
Enlightenment, and from the writings of Voltaire and others seems to have become established
in western thinking together with the secularization of society and its opposition to the power of the
Church.
The critical turn of thinking appears to have been due to an incompleteness in the metaphysics of
Descartes. Descartes, for all of his originality and brilliance, overlooked the integration of mind and body, as noted by Leibniz, by dividing reality into two completely distinct realms, one of extension (the body) and one of mind, which is non-extended. This worked out well in practice, by accomodating Newton's new mechanics, since his mechanics only apparently dealt with the physical world, and freed science from dealing with mind (and divinity) by simply ignoring it. Today,with the advent of quantum mechanics, we know that this is not true, for quanta are mental, not physical, since they are not independently in spacetime.
In materialistic thinking, the mind is a product of the brain and controlled by it. This however cannot explain intentional acts, which originate in mind. It also allows materialistic thinkers to ignore concepts such as the soul or divinity, giving justification for secularism, and opening up the possibility of dialectical materialism.
Leibniz pointed out that matter, since causality must be mental and not physical (since there are
no such physical entities as momentum, for example) must have some mental correspondent.
Leibniz called this mental correspondent the monad. An example of a monad is a quantum.
Another serious problem with materialism is that physical entities in spacetime are contingent,
meaning that they are not permanent and fixed, as Bertrand Russell thought they were
in his theory of descriptions. They are thus poor, ephemeral referents, since they both
move and continually change.
An example of a possible correction to materialism is given below, although obviously
others might be able to do better.
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The three levels of reality in platonic physics
FIRSTNESS -FIRST PERSON (I) -Mind- The One, the Monarch- this is the topdown, cybernetic realm of Plato's Mind. It is in fact life itself, pure nonphysical intelligence. Purely subjective, timeless and spaceless - with innate knowledge and a priori memory, containing the pre-established harmony, necessary logic, numbers - the womb of the WHAT. Mind creates all, perceives all, controls all. Thus the individual mind controls the brain, not the reverse. Mind plays the brain like a violin.
SECONDNESS - SECOND PERSON (YOU RIGHT HERE) Relational. Mental objects so both subjective +objective- The Many. In this, the WHAT separates from Mind and becomes a HERE. Accordingly. Heidegger referred to existence as "dasein". "Being here." On the other hand, Meinong referred to such mental objects as “sosein”. Being as. Some of these objects, such as ideas, or mathematics, are not monads, since they have no corresponding physical bodies.
Our personal minds (small m) are made up of intentional objects (Secondnesses).
Similarly, Russell did not accept the importance of Mind and its cybernetic, topdown control
by thought of all knowledge into two forms:
a) Public or descriptive knowledge, of Mind, and
b) Personal knowledge, expiences of individual minds (small m), which is knowledge by acquaintance.
Both of these forms are inherent in Leibniz's metaphysics.
Thus Russell's analytic philosophy only treats of a) the larger, public knowledge of Mind, while all of our individual contents of mind (small m) are type b), personal knowledge, experiential knowledge, knowledge byacquaintance.
In contrast, both Brentano and Meinong, no doubt because they were psychologists, were more interested in and studied b) rather than a). The objects of b) are objects of personal intention, as is all thought. So Secondness might be said to consists of two two types of mental objects, i) nonmonadic intendeds and ii) monads.
According to Leibniz, all monads are alive to various degrees. There are of three gradations of life in these, according to Leibniz:
a) Bare, naked monads, which we can think of as purely physical ( Eg, a fundamental particle).
b) Animal and vegetative monads, which Leibniz calls souls, which can have feelings, but little intellect.
c) Spirits (corresponding to humans), which have, in addition, intellectual capacities. Mind transforms physical signals in nerves and neurons into experiences. If Mind then apperceives or reflects on these experiences, they are said to be though
gt or apperceived. To be apperceived is to be made conscious. Thus consciousness is the product of thought. Intentions are also made in the same way, so that we caqn say that thoughts are intentions by Mind.
The human brain is a monad which contains as subsets, mental capacities. Neuroscience tells us that there is binding between monads for parts and functions of the brain, but since monads cannot act directly on each other, this binding must be indirect, through the sequential updates of the perceptions and appetites of the subfunction monads. These must be made by Mind, either directly or through the preestablished harmony PEH). Unfortunately the Stanford Leibniz site on Leibniz makes no mention of the action of Mind on the individual mind, IMHO a gross shortcoming.
Sensory signals and signals for feelings must also go through such a binding process. In a sense, the binding process plays the role of a self, but in conventional neuroscience self is a function of the brain, rather than the other way round, as common sense suggests and the intentionality of self or mind proves, along with the need for a PEH.
This shortcoming in conventional understanding of the brain becomes all the more nagging if we consider thinking, which is closely related to apperception, because it must be conscious.Thinking, we submit, consists of consciously manipulating and comparing such apperceptions.
Through Mind, with its potentially infinite wisdom and intelligence, intuitions and thoughts can arise spontaneously in the individual mind. If these are to be immediate and/or original, it is reasonable to believe that they originate in Mind, rather than indirectly through separate although bound parts of the brain. Anyone who has experienced a vocal duet in which the vibratos are in phase should become convinced of this.
Mind is the monarch of the intelligent mind, which controls the brain. Mind plays the brain like a violin. Mind is also is able to focus on a thought for a brief period, within the context of one's memory and universal memory, for purposes of thinking an comparison, making the biological brain and its complex bindings seem hopelessly indirect and subject to confusion.
THIRDNESS - THIRD PERSON (IT OVER THERE) Corresponding physical objects as is appropriate- -here the object is born or emittted from the monad--and emerges into spacetime as a particle, becoming completely objective, a WHAT+ HERE +WHEN., In addition the Thirdness of a private thought or experience is its public expression in some appropriate form.
3. Conclusions
This format allows us to examine quantum phenomena from inside out and perception, thinking and consciousness ontologically- from physical nerve signals to mental experiences such as thought, consciousness, and cognition. It also avoids problem encountered in “bottom-up” science, such as complexity and emergence, if for no other reason than there is no apparent way of conceiving of a singular control point at the bottom.
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Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (retired, 2000).
See my Leibniz site: rclough@verizon.academia.edu/RogerClough
For personal messages use rclough@verizon.net
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