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Greetings to all. My name is Stephanie Anak Firmus. I am 21 years old.  I grew up in Sibu, Sarawak, where I was born, then I moved to Kota Samarahan to pursue my first degree in International Studies at Unimas.

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SSF2063 APPROACHES TO SOCIAL INQUIRY crop

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All of the research paradigms were introduced in a lecture by Dr. Lucy Sebli. Dr. Lucy provides a brief explanation of the course along with the required evaluation. She specifically requests that students prepare a live portfolio on their own from week one to week fourteen. Dr. Lucy discussed the group assignment, which also includes group webinars and group research. For students to excel in the course, it is necessary that they complete all of these assignments. In addition, Dr. Lucy divided us into 11 groups, that each have seven to eight people.

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Students were exposed to more of social research philosophy during the second week. Positivism, interpretivism, constructivism, and postmodernism make up the entirety of philosophy. I also learned from the lecture that epistemology is the nature of knowledge, whereas ontology is the nature of reality.

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In order to discuss the assignment, all of the students were able to work in groups for the first time in week three. I was assigned in group 7, which has eight people in it. The group's leader was Aisyah, who was joined by Myra, Monica, Athirah, Afifah, Azzuan, and Luqman.

By the end of the discussion, we had all decided that the topic for our research paper would be the experiences of UNIMAS students using e-hailing services. We aim to achieve the following objectives through this research:
1. study the experience of UNIMAS students in using e-hailing services.
2. spreading awareness on issues that could arise from using E-hailing services among UNIMAS students.

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This week's primary objective was on discussing and completing the study proposal in accordance with the guidelines provided by Dr Lucy. My group organized an additional meeting to complete and finalize the research proposal together.

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Everything became more engaging and enjoyable this week. We could finally complete our first in-class activities. The task is focused on the research topic, and it requires us to identify the epistemology, ontology, and ethics that are included into our research and study.

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Due to the election day, this week's lecture was fully online. The lecture was engaging and informative even though it was delivered online. It was an interpretivism-focused lecture. We also completed a class activity this week that was focused on the lecture's topic.

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This week's online lecture also covered interpretivism research paradigms. Which overlapped on the idea of modern society and differed in terms of methodology and human nature. The philosophical tradition of German Rationalism also had an impact on it as well. In this lecture, we also learned about methodological hermeneutics.

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Group 7 Webinar: Honouring Autistic Identity

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Group 7 Webinar: Honouring Autistic Identity

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Honouring Autistic Identity Webinar was scheduled on 5 January 2023 (via Google Meet) in collaboration with Autism Acceptance Kuching (Autsome Kuching), featuring our speaker was Miss Emma Zainal Abiddin. Miss Emma was the founder of Autsome Kuching and an autism advocate full-time.

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Honouring Autistic Identity (My Group Assessment)

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Honouring Autistic Identity (My Group Assessment)

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Honouring Autistic Identity Webinar was scheduled on 5 January 2023 (via Google Meet) in collaboration with Autism Acceptance Kuching (Autsome Kuching), featuring our speaker was Miss Emma Zainal Abiddin. Miss Emma was the founder of Autsome Kuching and an autism advocate full-time.

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Webinar: The Brutality of Police Force On Minority Groups Globally

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Webinar: The Brutality of Police Force On Minority Groups Globally

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Handling a webinar is never an easy process, especially when it includes all of the outside NGOs. To ensure that our group webinar runs smoothly from the start, we planned everything properly, and a big thank you to our leader Aisyah, as well as every group member who sacrificed a lot of time to complete their part very well. We had many difficulties along the way, but we were capable of dealing with everything properly and wisely.
We decided to choose Honouring Autistic Identity as our webinar title because we want to raise awareness and knowledge about mental health in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASC) and to encourage people to become inspired to help autistic people by promoting autism acceptance.
We have invited Miss Emma who is a full time autism advocate, founder of  ûtsome Kuching & Special Olympics Unified Partner as our speaker.
In term of application of paradigm to our webinar, we were using interpretivism paradigm. This paradigm is deemed most suitable for our webinar topic as interpretivism argues that the way individual’s intention and experience matters. This suits the objectives of our webinar which are to raise awareness about people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASC) and also promoting autism acceptance in the community. Next, ontology. The discourse will deal with multiple realities and multiple interpretations as the speaker will share about their experience dealing with autistic people and audience can make their own interpretations on issues surrounding autism.

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This week, the details of the webinar were discussed. Our group, group 7, divided all of the preparation for my group webinar equally.

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This week, we had a more in-depth discussion of the constructivism paradigm. Reality is socially formed in the constructivism paradigm, and it also includes the study of perspective understanding, known as hermeunetics. Constructivism also acknowledges that reality is a product of human intellect interacting with real-world experience, and it includes human mental activity in the process of knowing reality and accepting the constructivism viewpoint. As a result, constructivism philosophy is based on cognitive psychology and has its roots in the Socratic Method of ancient Greece.

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This week group activity is based on constructivism paradigm

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Based on the material provided in the Eleap, two articles were assigned to be reviewed as part of the individual assignment or individual class activity.

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Aside from that, we also discussed about our research paper this week. Particularly on the requirement that must be included in our research paper proposal. Dr. Lucy advised us to incorporate the appropriate paradigm that can be used or applied to our research topic in our proposal. My group (group 7) has decided to adopt the constructivism paradigm because our research title paper is on student experiences with e-hailing services, which means that various realities will emerge because human experiences are so diverse.

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Interpretivism

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The interpretivism paradigm lecture was continued this week, and Dr Lucy finished covering the entire interpretivism learning unit. She stated that interpretivism was a dominant paradigm in the realm of social science, particularly in the nineteenth century. The Interpretivism paradigm shared a perspective of modern society, but they diverged in methodology and human nature.
As a result, Weber's appraisal of modern civilization stated that it was unique. Weber also emphasized the need of collective rationalism in promoting contact among various groups and individuals of society.

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SSF2063 Approaches to Social Inquiries Article Review 

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This week's class activity was a pair group, and I worked with Monica Runai to complete our literature review together.

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This week was our final lecture week for Social Inquiry, therefore we had two class sessions with Dr Lucy. The first class, which was exclusively for Group 8 webinar, was on Monday.
The second class was on Thursday, and it was our final class with Dr. Lucy this semester.

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Group 8 webinar is about the prejudices and discrimination against the LGBT community in Malaysia.

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We were completing a summary and revision for our final test with Dr Lucy on this day. At the end of our session, Dr. Lucy wished us luck on our final exams and asked us to look after each other throughout the semester break so that we could return to campus in a safe and sound state.

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Webinar: Prejudices and discrimination against the LGBT community in Malaysia.

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Webinar: Prejudices and discrimination against the LGBT community in Malaysia.