Method’s Essay – Politics and International Relations (Please Refer to PDF for further details)
All methods are affected by the metatheoretical position a researcher takes. Positivists prioritise certain methods, like surveys; certain methods they refuse to use, such as discourse analysis; and others they
would use only in certain ways, such as with interviews, which they would only use if rendering into quantitative data using content analysis. The same can be said for how realists and interpretivists view different methods.
Metatheory must be mentioned: epistemology more than ontology is relevant
here.
What Procedure can we use to acquire Knowledge?
What tools can we use to acquire knowledge?
You will understand what these are; the different as
