REALITY COMES THROUGH A PRISM: METHOD CHOICES IN LEISURE RESEARCH

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The goal of social research is to discover, understand, and communicate truth about people in society. The dimensions surrounding this goal are the nature of truth and how one knows what truth is. The dominant paradigm that has surrounded social science, and particularly the study of leisure, has been positivism. Today, a number of researchers are questioning the dominant positivist assumptions that have been guiding their lives and research. In leisure research, a revolution is quietly beginning as leisure researchers are suggesting that new questions need to be asked and new methods employed to better understand leisure behavior. A new world of understanding and study awaits leisure researchers if leisure reality is viewed through a prism that reflects expanding paradigmatic and methodological choices.