Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis: 1 (Continuum Research Methods)

Barry Cooper

ISBN 10: 1441171444 / ISBN 13: 9781441171443

Published by Continuum, 2012

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Offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. This book provides a thorough interrogation of the arguments and practices characteristic of both sides of the divide, focusing on how well they address the common problems that all social research faces. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC; JNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540. . 2012. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis: 1 (Continuum Research Methods)
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441171444
• ISBN 13: 9781441171443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

An exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues.

About the Authors

Barry Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Education at Durham University, UK. From 2004-2007, he was co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal.

Judith Glaesser is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Durham University, UK

ROGER GOMM was previously Lecturer in Health and Social Welfare at the Open University, UK.

Martyn Hammersley is Professor of Educational and Social Research at the Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning at The Open University. He has carried out research in the sociology of education and the sociology of the media. However, much of his work has been concerned with the methodological issues surrounding social enquiry. He has written several books, including: Reading Ethnographic Research (1991); What's Wrong with Ethnography? (1992); The Politics of Social Research (1995); Taking Sides in Social Research (1999); Educational Research, Policymaking and Practice (2002), Questioning Qualitative Inquiry (2008), and Methodology, Who Needs It? (2011).