SCS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ethnography, Analytic Induction, Multiple Dispatch

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 2150
• Professor: Ivan Katchanovski

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Lecture 12: combining qualitative and quantitative research and different methods. Overlapping research: one-method research is not exclusive, multi-method research. Examples: combining survey research and focus group research; combining quantitative and qualitative content analysis: combining either qualitative methods or quantitative methods. Combining focus group research and qualitative interviews. The natural science model and qualitative research: qualitative research often exhibits features associated with a natural science model. Empiricist themes: e. g. , desire for direct contact with reality, procedures in which theories are grounded in data, the meanings people give to their actions can be ascertained through the senses, etc. Hypothesis and theory-testing: analytic induction, grounded theory. Quantitative research and interpretivism: many quantitative researchers are interested in issues of meaning (such as those who attitudes using surveys, qualitati(cid:448)e (cid:272)lai(cid:373) a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess to pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)ts" (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld (cid:448)ie(cid:449) ((cid:396)a(cid:396)ely p(cid:396)o(cid:448)ed th(cid:396)ough (cid:396)espo(cid:374)de(cid:374)t validation) Quantitative research and constructionism: quantitative methods (such as quantitative approaches to content analysis) can be used to establish how people create their sense of reality.