![]() Critical social science, based on Marxist theories of class struggle, aims to ‘reveal, explain and understand power structures and relationships within society' (Gunter, 2000: 7). Intepretivism uses inductive method of reasoning (Wimmer and Dominick, 2003: 109) instead of numerically defined variables. Positivism looks to establish universal laws, akin to those of natural sciences (Gunter, 2000), based on large-scale quantitative research and deductive logic. These two issues will be tackled from three main epistemological perspectives. ![]() The second issue is the justification of comparative framework and its integrated strategy of combining quantitative and qualitative approaches to measure narrative elements. Thus, it is not practical to create a meaningful framework to analyze the textual materials without explaining the characteristics of narrative, and identifying a suitable measurement of narrative construction. ![]() In existing literatures of media studies, narrative construction is seldom explicitly and comprehensively explained. The first methodological issue is to define the narrative. Before designing the research method, two vital issues need to be addressed based on existing literatures. ![]()
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