Mixed Methods In Social Inquiry

New opportunities are rising for researchers and evaluators to concentrate on ways to combine different, even conflicting, assumptions about the nature of social phenomena and our objectives in better understanding and knowing them. The practical result will be losing the preoccupation with explicit assumptive differences among paradigms, such as objectivity-subjectivity and realism-relativism, and moving toward other characteristics of social inquiry traditions. Such characteristics define these traditions in important ways, but are not logically irreconcilable. This book will help faculty and students perform meaningful research and evaluation by expanding their understanding of mixed method research design, its history, applications, and unique strengths for education, psychology, and sociology.