Mixed Methods Research Outside the Box - Softcover

Joseph A. Maxwell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1071925695 ISBN 13: 9781071925690

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2025

Synopsis

In Mixed Methods Research Outside the Box, prominent author Joseph A. Maxwell shows readers how to do unconventional, yet effective, mixed methods research. Mixed Methods Research Outside the Box gives readers a new way to think about and combine qualitative and quantitative research. This readable text takes a broad view of mixed methods, revealing the largely unrecognized early history of mixed methods research and its current diversity across disciplines, identifying its philosophical bases, presenting an "interactive" model of design that more closely integrates qualitative and quantitative elements, and emphasizing the complementarity of qualitative and quantitative methods for understanding causation and generalization. Maxwell brings together work on combining qualitative and quantitative methods from a variety of disciplines and puts them in conversation with one another. Drawing from recent works on causation, integration, and philosophy of science, this text promotes innovations in mixed methods such as process tracing in political science and design-based research in education. This groundbreaking book provides readers with a new way of thinking about developing and conducting mixed methods research.

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About the Author

Joseph A. Maxwell is a Professor (Emeritus) in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University, where he taught courses on qualitative and mixed methods research. He is the author of Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (3rd ed.; SAGE, 2013), A Realist Approach for Qualitative Research (SAGE, 2012), and papers on qualitative and mixed methods research, program evaluation, sociocultural theory, Native American societies, and medical education. He has a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

From the Back Cover

Mixed Methods Research Outside the Box offers a fresh and unconventional perspective on mixed methods research. Author Joseph A. Maxwell empowers readers to creatively blend qualitative and quantitative approaches. Drawing from modern insights on causation and philosophy of science, this book promotes innovation in mixed methods.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1071925695
• ISBN 13: 9781071925690
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248