Engaging Critical Issues in Social Inquiry by Mixing Methods

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3756973
AutoresJennifer C Greene (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume56
Fascículo6
Páginas755-773
Data de publicação2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764211433794
OpenAlexW1982093999
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas33

Across the methodological spectrum, social inquirers today are challenged by a set of critical issues. These include the complexity of human phenomena, the location of context in human action, the role of values in inquiry, and the role of inquiry in society. Different methodological traditions offer different responses to these challenges, responses that, in turn, shape the knowledge generated from a study and the warrants for that knowledge. This article presents a mixed methodological response to these challenges and a primary argument that a mixed methods approach offers dialogic opportunities to generate better understanding of important social phenomena precisely because it legitimizes and respects multiple responses to these critical issues and invites dialogue among them. The argument is illustrated by imagining a mixed methods approach to two empirical studies, each conducted originally with a single methodological framework

Action (physics) · Argument (complex analysis) · Context (archaeology) · Critical theory · Dialogic · Empirical research · Epistemology · Pedagogy · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics