Marxism, coloniality and ontological assumptions

O Ontological Assumptions in Information Modeling

Information modeling is a technique by which a database designer develops a conceptual model of a database depicting the entity classes that will be represented in the database. There are three competing ontological assumptions that guide the modeling process. The broadest characterization of these assumptions is realism vs. conceptualism, with social realism occupying a middle ground. The real...

The Ontological Assumptions of Max Weber’s Methodology

All interpretation involves some form of induction. Passages and fragments of an author's writings are taken by an investigator, organized, and reassembled into a coherent and meaningful picture of the author's reality with the intent of illustrating some hitherto undiscovered motivation and/or intent. These inductive inferences may make a contribution to the store of human intellectual history...

Uncovering the epistemological and ontological assumptions of software designers

The ontological and epistemological positions adopted by information systems design methods are incommensurable when pushed to their extremes. Information systems research has therefore tended to focus on the similarities between different positions, usually in search of a single, unifying position. However, by focusing on the similarities, the clarity of argument provided by any one philosophi...

Qualitative versus Quantitative Research Strategies: Contrasting Epistemological and Ontological Assumptions

This paper attempts to discuss how qualitative (intensive) and quantitative (extensive) research strategies differ by contrasting epistemological and ontological aspects and how these beliefs and views fit with their different intellectual goals. Firstly, this paper discusses the importance of understanding philosophy in social science research and its relation to qualitative (intensive) and qu...

Marxism and Method