Journal
THEORY AND SOCIETY
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 193-216Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11186-019-09345-5
Keywords
Data; field analysis; Mixed methods research; Multiple methods; Reflexivity; Sociology of science
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- European Union [319974]
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Combining methods in social scientific research has recently gained momentum through a research strand called Mixed Methods Research (MMR). This approach, which explicitly aims to offer a framework for combining methods, has rapidly spread through the social and behavioural sciences, and this article offers an analysis of the approach from a field theoretical perspective. After a brief outline of the MMR program, we ask how its recent rise can be understood. We then delve deeper into some of the specific elements that constitute the MMR approach, and we engage critically with the assumptions that underlay this particular conception of using multiple methods. We conclude by offering an alternative view regarding methods and method use.
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