Contents
Introduction
1 The bases of the methodological
distinction
2 Quantitative methodology
2.1 Theoretical background of
quantitative methodology
2.2 Positivism
2.3 Critique of quantitative
methodology
3 Qualitative methodology
3.1 Theoretical foundations of qualitative
methodology
Constructionism
Individual and collective generation of meanings
Interpretivism
3.2 Central elements of
qualitative research
3.3 Qualitative paradigms
Symbolic interactionism
Phenomenology
3.4 Features of qualitative
methodology
3.5 Critique of qualitative
research
4 Qualitative and quantitative
research in comparison
4.1 Major differences between the methodologies
4.2 Methodological symbiosis or incompatibility?
5 Quantitative and qualitative
methods
6 Critical research
Main points
Where to from here?