Affiliation:
1. Department of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. 93106, U.S.A.
Abstract
The perennial controversy over quantitative and qualitative methods is addressed from an empirical point of view rather than as a purely methodological or epistemological question. Consideration of empirical findings leads to rejection of the prevailing views that social science is either nomothetic or idiographic and that a significant methodological distinction can be drawn between quantitative and qualitative methods in social research. As a consequence, quantitative and qualitative methods are seen as inherently complementary, and the question of objectivity in social science is viewed, not as a matter of following "correct" procedure, but rather as an issue dealt with as a practical matter by researchers in terms of internal and external coherence.
Subject
Sociology and Political Science
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9 articles.
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