CRIM 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Multiple Dispatch, Pragmatism, Symbolic Interactionism
25 Aug 2016
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Two things that have changed that have surprised researchers. One is research infrastructure where digital technologies in particular hace had an overwhelmingly pervasive impact on virtually every aspect of how we do research. A second area of change has been in the bourgeoning embrace of greater methodological diversity in many quarters of the social and health sciences. By using multi methods to measure multiple traits, researchers could dramatically improve the validity of their observations since they could establish that the measure and not the method was responsible for producing the observed results. Referred to this procedure as multi-trait-multi-method matrix. Triangulation: a research strategy that permits us to validate our observations by drawing upon multiple sources of perspectives within the same investigation. Paradigm war between realism and constructivism became so pronounced. Some still believe that the mixing of the two would be impossible: incompatibility thesis. Mixed method approaches believe using both qualitative and quantitative methods is best.
