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Challenging the qualitative-quantitative divide : explorations in case-focused causal analysis / Barry Cooper [and others].

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Continuum Research Methods SerPublisher: London ; New York : Continuum, [2012]Description: 1 online resource (vii, 272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781441100634
  • 1441100636
  • 1280578289
  • 9781280578281
  • 9786613608031
  • 6613608033
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Challenging the qualitative-quantitative divide.DDC classification:
  • 001.4/2 23
LOC classification:
  • H62 .C4466 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: This work provides an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

This work provides an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues.

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