Mixing Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Research

by Brannen,Julia; Brannen,Julia

• ISBN13: 9781859721162
• ISBN10: 1859721168
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-03-28
• Publisher: Avebury

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches: an overview	p. 3
Deconstructing the qualitative-quantitative divide	p. 39
Quantitative and qualitative research: further reflections on their integration	p. 57
The relationships between quantitative and qualitative approaches in social policy research	p. 81
Integrating methods in applied research in social policy: a case study of carers	p. 101
Combining quantitative and qualitative methods: a case study of the implementation of the Open College policy	p. 127
Multiple methods in the study of household resource allocation	p. 145
Index	p. 169
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