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Pilcher, Nick and Cortazzi, M. (2016) Dialogues : QUANT Researchers on QUAL Methods. The Qualitative Report, 21 (3). pp. 450-473.
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Abstract
Qualitative researchers commonly perceive that positivist hard-science researchers and policies of governments deprecate qualitative methods and approaches. Curiously though, we could not see anyone asking quantitative researchers ‘What do you think about qualitative approaches and methods?’ We did this in interviews with 17 assumed quantitative researchers in the fields of advanced materials construction, civil engineering, transport modelling, computer science, and geotechnics. Surprisingly, these researchers rarely described themselves as purely quantitative, and were rarely against the five qualitative methods discussed. Moreover, many actually used qualitative methods, often in ways we had not anticipated. Drawing on a Bakhtinian grounded framework, we present our analysis as a performed ethnographic dialogue between data extracts and research literature. We present evidence that the alleged qualitative-quantitative divide does not apply here, and suggest dialogic ways to see teach "qualitative" and "quantitative" and some associated terms.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Qualitative Report | ||||
| Publisher: | College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Nova Southeastern University | ||||
| ISSN: | 1052-0147 | ||||
| Official Date: | 3 July 2016 | ||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 August 2016 | ||||
| Volume: | 21 | ||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 450-473 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
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