Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide

Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

AvBarry Cooper,Judith Glaesser,Roger Gomm,Martyn Hammersley

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This book 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 analysis - for instance, in the form of Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Analytic Induction, Grounded Theorising, or Cluster Analysis - can bridge the gap between the two sides.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-05-10
Mått152 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieContinuum Research Methods
Antal sidor288
FörlagContinuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN9781441114396
UtmärkelserCommended for Society for Educational Studies Annual Book Prize 2013 (UK)

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Judith Glaesser is Lecturer in the School of Education at Durham University, UK Roger Gomm, now retired, was Lecturer in Health and Welfare at The Open University, UK. He has a long experience of ethnographic research in both the UK and internationally, and of bespoke evaluation research. Martyn Hammersley is Professor of Educational and Social Research in the Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning at the Open University, UK. Barry Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Education at Durham University, UK. From 2004-2007, he was co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal.

Introduction; Part I: Problems with Quantitative and Qualitative Research; 1. What's Wrong with Quantitative Research?; 2. Quantitative Research on Meritocracy: The Problem of Inference from Outcomes to Opportunities; 3. Qualitative Causal Analysis: Grounded Theorising and the Qualitative Survey; 4. Qualitative Research and the Fallacies of Composition and Division: The Case of Ethnic Inequalities in Educational Achievement; Part II: Exploring Case-Focused Approaches to Causal Analysis; 5. Set Theoretic versus Correlational Methods: the Case of Ability and Educational Achievement; 6. Creating Typologies: Comparing Fuzzy Qualitative Comparative Analysis with Fuzzy Cluster Analysis; 7. Analytic Induction versus Qualitative Comparative Analysis; Conclusion; References; Index.