HLTD04H3 Chapter 15: Chapter 15
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Hltb10 chapter 15: combining quantitative and qualitative research. Multi-strategy research work that integrates quantitative and qualitative approaches. Particular research methods are associated with certain epistemological and ontological positions. Quantitative and qualitative research are inherently incompatible on epistemological and ontological grounds. Epistemological positions of the two methods are irreconcilable. This argument conceives quantitative and qualitative research as paradigms. A paradigm is a set of beliefs and assumptions about how the world works and how knowledge of it is to be gained. Paradigms are incommensurable, inconsistent with each other b/c of their divergent assumptions & methods. The problem with the paradigm argument is that it rests, as does the embedded methods claim, on an interconnection of method and epistemology that has not been demonstrated. Two positions in the debate about quantitative and qualitative research (286) An epistemological argument: as in the embedded method and paradigm position. A technical argument: research methods are perceived as being independent of any specific epistemological position.
