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PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 303-326Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0048393110375433
Keywords
the qualitative-quantitative divide; quantity; quality; Blumer; Hegel
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The article analysis the views approaching quantitative and qualitative methods in social sciences as separable or irreconcilable. First, we characterize these views and show how they deal with this divide and how they view the aspects of the latter. Next, we identify the works of Herbert Blumer as the basis of that divide and subject them to an analysis. Finally, by means of categories like quantity, quality, and measure, we show that the qualitative-quantitative divide is based on a wrong approach to these categories and the quantitative and qualitative methods.
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