Quantitative research can be represented as a research strategy that:

AEmbodies a view of social reality as an external, objective reality ✓ Correct

BEmphasizes an inductive approach to the relationship between theory and research

CHas rejected the practices and norms of natural scientific model

DEmbodies a view of social reality as a constantly shifting emergent property of individuals' creation

Correct answer: (A) Embodies a view of social reality as an external, objective reality

Explanation

Quantitative research embodies a view of social reality as an external, objective reality independent of the observer.

Emphasising an inductive approach describes qualitative rather than quantitative strategy.

Rejecting the practices and norms of the natural scientific model is again a qualitative stance.

Viewing social reality as a constantly shifting creation of individuals is the constructionist, qualitative position.

The objectivist ontology underpins quantitative measurement of a stable external world.

Quantitative research pairs this objectivism with a deductive, theory-testing logic.

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