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Mixed Methods

Four Volume Set
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August 2006 | 1 680 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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Mixed methods research has become one of the major areas of growth in social research methodology in the last 10 years. The divisions between quantitative and qualitative research have increasingly given way to imaginative ways of combining the two approaches and a growing acceptance of adopting a multi-method approach. Much of the literature on mixed-methods research is highly dispersed in a wide variety of journals and other publications. A great deal of it is not well known and quite a lot of it is inaccessible. Alan Bryman, widely recognized as an authority on the subject, brings together the key articles in this important field.

Volume I is concerned with outlining the epistemological and ontological issues relating to the debate about quantitative and qualitative research and how these have an impact on the possibility of mixing methods. Volume II is concerned with the combination of different methods within quantitative research and within qualitative research. Volume III addresses the methodological issues involved in combining quantitative and qualitative research - the different ways in which mixed-methods research is actually accomplished. Volume IV continues the kinds of material used in Volume III but will also include some examples of combining quantitative and qualitative research.

 
VOLUME ONE: EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND ONTOLOGICAL ISSUES
 
PART ONE: THE PARADIGM WARS
M Hammersley
The Paradigm Wars
Reports from the Front

 
A Oakley
Paradigm Wars
Some Thoughts on a Personal and Public Trajectory

 
L Datta
Paradigm Wars
A Basis for Peaceful Co-Existence and Beyond

 
 
PART TWO: RESISTANCE TO COMBINING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
J K Smith and L Heshusius
Closing Down the Conversation
The End of the Quantitative-Qualitative Debate Among Educational Enquirers

 
E G Guba and Y S Lincoln
Epistemological and Methodological Bases of Naturalistic Inquiry
D R Buchanan
An Uneasy Alliance
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research

 
J E M Sale, L H Lohfeld and K Brazil
Revisiting the Quantitative-Qualitative Debate
Implications for Mixed-Methods Research

 
 
PART THREE: ACCOMMODATION
R C Rist
On the Relations Among Educational Research Paradigms
From Disdain to Detente

 
J K Smith
An Opportunity Lost?
K R Howe
Against the Quantitative-Qualitative Incompatibility Thesis or Dogmas Die Hard
W A Firestone
Accommodation
Toward a Paradigm-Praxis Dialectic

 
C S Reichardt and T D Cook
Beyond Qualitative Versus Quantitative Methods
 
PART FOUR: FEMINISM AND THE QUANTITATIVE-QUALITATIVE DEBATE
A Oakley
Gender, Methodology and People's Ways of Knowing
Some Problems with Feminism and the Paradigm Debate in Social Science

 
T E Jayaratne and A J Stewart
Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Current Feminist Issues and Practical Strategies

 
M Maynard
Methods, Practice and Epistemology
The Debate About Feminism and Research

 
C Griffin and A Phoenix
The Relationship Between Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Lessons From Feminist Psychology

 
 
PART FIVE: MIXED-METHODS RESEARCH AS A DISTINCTIVE APPROACH
F Baum
Researching Public Health
Behind the Qualitative-Quantitative Methodological Debate

 
R B Johnson and A J Onwuegbuzie
Mixed Methods Research
A Research Paradigm Whose Time Has Come

 
A Tashakkori and C Teddlie
Issues and Dilemmas in Teaching Research Methods Courses in Social and Behavioural Sciences
U S Perspective

 
A Tashakkori and C Teddlie
Mixed Methodology
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

 
 
VOLUME TWO: MIXING METHODS AND TRIANGULATION
 
PART ONE: CLASSIC STATEMENT ON TRIANGULATION
L J Cronbach and P E Meehl
Construct Validity in Psychological Tests
D T Campbell and D W Fiske
Convergent and Discriminant Validation by the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix
E J Webb et al
Unobtrusive Measures
Nonreactive Research in the Social Sciences

 
N K Denzin
The Research Act in Sociology
Theoretical Introduction to Sociological Methods

 
T D Jick
Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Triangulation in Action

 
 
PART TWO: TRIANGULATION IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS
R S Barbour
Mixing Qualitative Methods
Quality Assurance or Qualitative Quagmire

 
H S Wilson and S A Hutchinson
Triangulation of Qualitative Methods
Heideggerian Hermeneutics and Grounded Theory

 
K A Knafl and B J Breitmeyer
Triangulation in Qualitative Research
Issues of Conceptual Clarity and Purpose

 
 
PART THREE: CRITICISMS OF THE CONCEPT OF TRIANGULATION
N Blaikie
A Critique of the Use of Triangulation in Social Research
N Fielding and J Fielding
Linking Data
 
PART FOUR: EXTENSIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF TRIANGULATION
J Morse
Approaches to Qualitative-Quantitative Methodological Triangulation
M W Lewis and A J Grimes
Metatriangulation
Building Theory from Multiple Paradigms

 
U Flick
Triangulation Revisited
Strategy of Validation or Alternative

 
C Foss and B Ellefson
The Value of Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Nursing Research by Means of Method Triangulation
M Risjord, M Moloney and S Dunbar
Methodological Triangulation in Nursing Research
J W Cox and J Hassard
Triangulation in Organizational Research
A Representation

 
 
PART FIVE: RECONCILING FINDINGS
C I Hovland
Reconciling Conflicting Results Derived from Experimental and Survey Studies of Attitude Change
D Deacon, A Bryman and N Fenton
Collision or Collusion? A Discussion of the Unplanned Triangulation of Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods
A Perlesz and J Lindsay
Methodological Triangulation in Researching Families
Making Sense of Dissonant Data

 
 
PART SIX: RESEARCH ON TRIANGULATION AND OTHER APPROACHES TO MIXING METHODS
J C Greene, V J Caracelli and W F Graham
Toward a Conceptual Framework for Mixed-Method Evaluation Designs
A Bryman
Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research
How Is It Done?

 
 
VOLUME THREE: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN COMBINING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
 
PART ONE: GENERAL OVERVIEWS OF WAYS OF COMBINING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
S D Sieber
The Integration of Fieldwork and Survey Methods
A Bryman
Quality and Quantity in Social Research
D L Morgan
Practical Strategies for Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Applications for Health Research

 
J Brannen
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
An Overview

 
M Hammersley
Deconstructing the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide
 
PART TWO: COMBINING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: THE VIEW FROM EVALUATION RESEARCH
M L Smith
The Whole Is Greater
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Evaluation Studies

 
G B Rossman and B L Wilson
Numbers and Words Revisited
Being Shamelessly Eclectic

 
 
PART THREE: MIXED-METHODS RESEARCH IN VARIOUS CONTEXTS
G A Fine and K D Elsbach
Ethnography and Experiment in Social Psychological Theory-Building
Tactics for Integrating Qualitative Field Data with Quantitative Lab Data

 
J Coyle and B Williams
An Exploration of the Epistemological Intricacies of Using Qualitative Data to Develop a Quantitative Measure of User Views of Health Care
D P Gioia, A Donnellon and H P Sims
Communication and Cognition in Appraisal
A Tale of Two Paradigms

 
P L Johnstone
Mixed Methods, Mixed Methodology Health Services Research in Practice
M Sandelowski
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Sampling, Data Collection and Analysis Techniques in Mixed-Method Studies
J W Creswell, M D Fetters and N V Ivankova
Designing a Mixed Methods Study in Primary Care
C G Wenger
Advantages Gained by Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Data in a Longitudinal Study
D Weinholtz, B Kacer and T Rocklin
Salvaging Quantitative Research with Qualitative Data
 
PART FOUR: SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AND QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE
T Greenhalgh et al
Storylines of Research in Diffusion of Innovation
A Metanarrative Approach to Systematic Review

 
M Dixon-Woods et al
Synthesizing Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence
A Review of Possible Methods

 
 
PART FIVE: APPRAISING MIXED-METHODS RESEARCH
J E M Sale and K Brazil
A Strategy to Identify Critical Appraisal Criteria for Primary Mixed-Methods Studies
 
VOLUME FOUR: EXAMPLES OF COMBINING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
 
PART ONE: EARLY CASE STUDIES OF COMBINING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
W F Whyte
Research Methods for the Study of Conflict and Co-Operation
M G Trend
On the Reconciliation of Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses
A Case Study

 
I Connidis
Living Arrangements of Older Residents
Assessing Quantitative Results with Qualitative Data

 
V W Marshall
Participant Observation in a Multiple-Methods Study of a Retirement Community
A Research Narrative

 
 
PART TWO: EVALUATION CASE STUDIES
M Waysman and R Savaya
Mixed Method Evaluation
A Case Study

 
J Gaber and S L Gaber
Utilizing Mixed-Method Research Design in Planning
The Case of 14th Street, New York City

 
 
PART THREE: COMBINING SURVEYS WITH QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS
S Herman and C P Egri
Triangulation in Action
Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Research Environmental Leadership

 
H Laurie and O Sullivan
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Data in the Longitudinal Study of Household Allocations
K Hughes et al
Young People, Alcohol and Designer Drinks
A Quantitative and Qualitative Study

 
K Rowlingson and S McKay
Lone Motherhood and Socio-Economic Disadvantage
Insights from Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence

 
 
PART FOUR: SAMPLING AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES
B Nickel et al
Qualitative Sampling in a Multi-Method Survey
K O'Brien
Using Focus Groups to Develop Health Surveys
An Example from Research on Social Relationships and AIDS-Preventive Behavior

 
 
PART FIVE: DIVERSE APPROACHES TO COMBINING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
J E Coverdill, W Finlay and J K Martin
Labor Management in the Southern Textile Industry
Comparing Qualitative, Quantitative and Qualitative Comparative Analysis

 
S Chilton et al
Valuing the `Value of Life'
A Case of Constructed Preferences?

 
C Seale
Methodology Versus Scholarship? Overcoming the Divide in Analyzing Identity Narratives of People with Cancer
M I Tulloch
Combining Classificatory and Discursive Methods
Consistency and Variability in Responses to the Threat of Crime

 
R I Sutton and A Rafeali
Untangling the Relationship Between Displayed Emotions and Organizational Sales
The Case of Convenience Stores

 
C A Yauch
Complementary Use of Qualitative and Quantitative Cultural Assessment Models
P Blatchford
A Multi-Method Approach to the Study of School Class Size Differences
M Galton and S Delamont
Speaking With Forked Tongue? Two Styles of Observation in the ORACLE Project

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