Mixing Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Research (Social Policy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859721168 ISBN 13: 9781859721162

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

This book focuses on a key issue in the methodology of the social and behavioural sciences: the mixing of different research methods. The extent to which qualitative and quantitative research differ from one another has long been a subject of debate. Although many methodologists have concluded that the two approaches are not mutually exclusive, there are few books on either the theory or the practice of mixing methods. Mixing Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Research presents a comprehensive discussion of the theoretical, methodological and practical issues. It also covers a number of case studies of research which have successfully combined qualitative and quantitative approaches. Contributors include sociologists who have written extensively on the methodology of the social sciences and researchers who have concerned themselves with important social policy issues in the fields of further education, community services and household finances.

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Julia Brannen

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1859721168
• ISBN 13: 9781859721162
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Brannen Julia