Book chapter
Counting Qualitative Data
Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research, pp.466-475
Routledge
2015
Abstract
Discussions of the relationship between qualitative and quantitative approaches to social research
often focus on their contradictory aspects or the relative strengths of each (for helpful overviews,
see Kaplan, this volume; Howe 1988, 1992; Rossman and Wilson 1985). Qualitative research is often
portrayed as offering rich context, phenomenological understanding, insight into behavioral complexity, and the opportunity for inductive theory building, while quantitative approaches are cast as
promising standardization, control, reliability, and a firmer basis for making causal claims consistent
with deductive theory testing (for helpful overviews, see Adler and Adler 1994; Fine and Elsbach
2000; Johnson and Onwuegbuzie 2004).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Counting Qualitative Data
- Creators
- Chad Michael McPhersonMichael Sauder - University of Iowa, Sociology and Criminology
- Contributors
- Kimberly D. Elsbach (Editor)Roderick Kramer (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research, pp.466-475
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2015
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306247402771
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