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Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide

by Barry Cooper and Judith Glaesser and Roger Gomm

ISBN13: 9781441114396
ISBN10: 1441114394

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An exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues.

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

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ISBN:: 9781441114396
Binding:: Trade Paperback
Publication date:: 05/10/2012
Publisher:: Continuum
Series info:: Continuum Research Methods
Language:: English
Pages:: 288
Height:: .60IN
Width:: 6.10IN
Thickness:: .59 in.
LCCN:: 2011024276
Series Number:: 1
Author:: Barry Cooper
Author:: Martyn Hammersley
Author:: Roger Gomm
Author:: Judith Glaesser
Subject:: Sociology-Reference and Methodology