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Retroductive Theorizing

A Contribution of Critical Realism to Mixed Methods Research

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ID8072286
AutoresFerdinand C Mukumbang (0000-0003-1441-2172, University of Washington, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume17
Fascículo1
Páginas93-114
Data de publicação2021-12-06
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Mixed Methods Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1558-6898 • E-ISSN: 1558-6901
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/15586898211049847
OpenAlexW4200058602
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas52
Referências citadas77

Mixed methods studies in social sciences are predominantly employed to explore broad, complex, and multifaceted issues and to evaluate policies and interventions. The integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in social sciences most often follows the Peircean pragmatic approach—abductive hypothesis formation followed by deductive and inductive testing/confirmation—with limited theorizing properties. This paper contributes to the field of mixed methods research in social sciences by explicating a two-way interaction process between mixed methods data and [social] theory in a pluralistic inferencing approach espoused by critical realism—retroductive theorizing. The paper further illustrates how through retroductive theorizing, critical realism offers a more epistemologically and ontologically grounded alternative for integrating qualitative and quantitative methods compared to pragmatism

Abductive reasoning · Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Grounded theory · Management science · Multimethodology · Pragmatism · Process (computing · Qualitative research · Realism · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Data Analysis and Archiving · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Philosophy

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