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Challenging the qualitative-quantitative divide : explorations in case-focused causal analysis /

This work provides an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, Barry, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, [2012]
Colección:Continuum Research Methods Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Problems with Quantitative and Qualitative Research
  • 1. What's Wrong with Quantitative Research?
  • 2. Quantitative Research on Meritocracy: The Problem of Inference from Outcomes to Opportunities
  • 3. Qualitative Causal Analysis: Grounded Theorising and the Qualitative Survey
  • 4. Qualitative Research and the Fallacies of Composition and Division: The Case of Ethnic Inequalities in Educational Achievement
  • Part II: Exploring Case-Focused Approaches to Causal Analysis
  • 5. Set Theoretic versus Correlational Methods: the Case of Ability and Educational Achievement
  • 6. Creating Typologies: Comparing Fuzzy Qualitative Comparative Analysis with Fuzzy Cluster Analysis
  • 7. Analytic Induction versus Qualitative Comparative Analysis \ Conclusion \ References \ Index.