Read the following two articles and write a mini-paper comparing their research paradigms by answering the questions below.

Garner, D. M., & Garfinkel, P. E. (1980). Socio-cultural factors in the development of anorexia nervosa . Psychological Medicine, 10(4), 647-656.

Piran, N. (2001). Re-inhabiting the body from the inside out: Girls transform their school environment . In D. L. Tolman & M. Brydon-Miller (Eds.), From subjects to subjectivities: A handbook of interpretative and participatory methods (pp. 218-238). New York University Press.

Piran (2001) takes a transformative approach to studying body weight and shape preoccupation while Garner and Garfinkel (1980) take a post-positivist approach.

What are the similarities and what are the differences in the framing and research approaches of these two articles (transformative vs. post-positivist)?
What assumptions about the world (ontology) and how knowledge is created (epistemology) do each of the researchers seem to hold?
What kind of knowledge does each study produce and how is that knowledge used?
Which study would you judge as more rigorous and trustworthy and why?
Which approach do you feel more aligned with and why?

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The two articles Garner and Garfinkel 1980 and Piran 2001 indeed employ different research paradigms and approaches with Garner and Garfinkel adopting a postpositivist approach and Piran using a trans... View the full answer