Add to ORKGThis title offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. This book challenges the divide between qualitative and quantitative approaches that is now institutionalized within social science. Rather than suggesting the 'mixing' of methods, "Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide" provides a thorough interrogation of the arguments and practices characteristic of both sides of the divide, focusing on how well they address the common problems that all social research faces, particularly as regards causal analysis. The authors identify some fundamental weaknesses in both quantitative and qualitative approaches, and explore whether case-focused a...
The key to using an analytic method is to understand its underlying logic and figure out how to inco...
Researchers have long argued that quantitative and qualitative methods are distinct and, therefore, ...
Recently, a debate has arisen around what can be called the “indistinguishability thesis,” that is, ...
There are explicit methodological tensions among researchers in the qualitative and quantitative tra...
There’s no hard and fast rule for qualitative versus quantitative research, and it’s often taken for...
Qualitative scholars exhibit a wide range of views on and approaches to causality. While some approa...
The objective of this book is to fill the gap combining several studies from qualitative and quantit...
Charles RAGIN's work, especially his development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), offers s...
During the past two decades, a set of systematic comparative case analysis techniques has been devel...
The Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) methodology has evolved remarkably in social science rese...
Traditionally, social scientists perceived causality as regularity. As a consequence, qualitative co...
"Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes. Drawing on set theory and the language ...
This paper examined quantitative and qualitative techniques as applicable to sociological research. ...
This article argues that conventional quantitative and qualitative research methods have largely fai...
Qualitative empirical research and case studies have, like any other scientific method, their streng...
The key to using an analytic method is to understand its underlying logic and figure out how to inco...
Researchers have long argued that quantitative and qualitative methods are distinct and, therefore, ...
Recently, a debate has arisen around what can be called the “indistinguishability thesis,” that is, ...
There are explicit methodological tensions among researchers in the qualitative and quantitative tra...
There’s no hard and fast rule for qualitative versus quantitative research, and it’s often taken for...
Qualitative scholars exhibit a wide range of views on and approaches to causality. While some approa...
The objective of this book is to fill the gap combining several studies from qualitative and quantit...
Charles RAGIN's work, especially his development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), offers s...
During the past two decades, a set of systematic comparative case analysis techniques has been devel...
The Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) methodology has evolved remarkably in social science rese...
Traditionally, social scientists perceived causality as regularity. As a consequence, qualitative co...
"Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes. Drawing on set theory and the language ...
This paper examined quantitative and qualitative techniques as applicable to sociological research. ...
This article argues that conventional quantitative and qualitative research methods have largely fai...
Qualitative empirical research and case studies have, like any other scientific method, their streng...
The key to using an analytic method is to understand its underlying logic and figure out how to inco...
Researchers have long argued that quantitative and qualitative methods are distinct and, therefore, ...
Recently, a debate has arisen around what can be called the “indistinguishability thesis,” that is, ...