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Contents

 

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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?




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