Sociology 2206A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Ethnography

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2206A/B
• Professor: Steven J Maynard

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Chapter 16: combining methods in social science research. Triangulation: a general term that refers to mixed methods research. Mixed methods: in general, when more than one research method is used to address a research question. Also often refers specifically to when qualitative and quantitative methods are used together in a single project. Monostrand design: a research design using a single research method. Multi-method research: an approach of using more than one quantitative method or more than one qualitative method in a single research project. Institutional ethnography (ie): a specific methodological approach where, from a marist perspective, the discourse of key texts in analyzed along with ethnographic techniques to e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)e ho(cid:449) relati(cid:448)el(cid:455) po(cid:449)erless people are (cid:862)stru(cid:272)tured(cid:863) (cid:271)(cid:455) orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)s. Priority: in mixed methods research, refers to when a researcher has a preference for a quantitative or qualitative method to be considered the primary technique, with others used as supplementary methods.