Mixed methods in social inquiry / Jennifer C. Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene, Jennifer C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mixed methods research.

Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

xv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2007]

Summary:

New opportunities are rising for researchers and evaluators to concentrate on ways to combine different, even conflicting, assumptions about the nature of social phenomena and our objectives in better understanding and knowing them. The practical result will be losing the preoccupation with explicit assumptive differences among paradigms, such as objectivity-subjectivity and realism-relativism, and moving toward other characteristics of social inquiry traditions. Such characteristics define these traditions in important ways, but are not logically irreconcilable. This book will help faculty and students perform meaningful research and evaluation by expanding their understanding of mixed method research design, its history, applications, and unique strengths for education, psychology, and sociology.

Contents:

Mental models and mixed methods inquiry

Adopting a mixed methods way of thinking

The historical roots of the contemporary mixed methods conversation

Contested spaces : paradigms and practice in mixed methods social inquiry

Stances on mixing paradigms and mental models while mixing methods

Mixing methods on purpose

Designing mixed methods studies

Mixed methods data analysis

Judging the quality of mixed methods social inquiry

Writing up and reporting mixed methods social inquiry

The potential and promise of mixed methods social inquiry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [200]-209) and index.

ISBN:

9780787983826

0787983829

OCLC:

154308926

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