SA 255 Lecture 5: SA 255 - Mixed Methods
9 Feb 2017
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Sa 255 mixed methods (week 5 february 6th, 2017) The kinds of questions we want answered, put in motion what methods, or complex of methods are appropriate and effective to use (brannen 2005) How important is estimating the frequency of a behaviour, or generalizing an association to a population, or understanding how a particular culture (say, vancouverites) practices everyday life? (context of enquiry: context of enquiry starting point. But what if your question-complex leads the need for qualitative and quantitative. Paradigm wars (more heat than light): qualitative and quantitative make fundamentally incompatible assumptions about the world. Numbers versus text; meaning versus behaviour; nomothetic versus ideographic knowledge, induction verses deduction. Quantitative research: to establish causality, measure concepts, generalize and replicate findings (reliability) Qualitative research: to walk in the shoes of participants; rich description, show context, generate theory. Quantitative research terminology & application to qualitative research:
