COMM 3002 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Focus Group, Participant Observation, Vise
2 Feb 2016
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Mixed-method research is now being adopted uncritically by a new. The distinctions between them are so blurred that researchers are left. Each method is based on a particular paradigm, a patterned set of. This paper presents what we believe to be a fundamental point in this. Health care research includes many studies that combine quantitative (cid:1) Mixed-methods research (cid:1) (cid:1) and qualitative methods, and this is not without problems. This paper revisits the quan-qual debate which flourished in the 70s (cid:1) and 80s, and reviews the arguments for and against using mixed-methods (cid:1) debate. Some people may argue that we are beyond the debate and can now (cid:1) freely use mixed-method designs to carry out relevant and valuable research. Combining qual and quan methods in a single study is widely. The underlying assumptions of quan and qual paradigms result in. The different assumptions of the quantitative and qualitative. Guba and lincoln claim that questions of method are secondary to.
