Second, In A. Tashakkori & C. Teddlie (Eds. Triangulation and mixed methods designs data integration with new research technologies. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2(3), 270–283. Table 2 lists the 20 journals that contain at least 1% (8 articles) of the total amount of articles. Seeing methods as complex technologies, with a history that entails the struggles among the different agents involved in their production, and use opens the way to identify multiple interfaces for combining them: the one-sided boxes become polyhedra. The craft of sociology: Epistemological preliminaries. This not only constitutes a problem for trying to understand methods as intellectual products, but also for regarding the practice of combining methods, because it ignores the social-historical context of the development of individual methods and hinders a sociologically grounded notion of combining methods. Bryman, A. Creswell, J. W. (2012). (2007). One of these must surely be the data-theoretical elements that different methods incorporate. Combining methods should indeed be taken much more seriously in the social sciences. L’Emprise du champ scientifique sur le champ universitaire et ses effets. In A. Tashakkori & C. Teddlie (Eds. A Typology of Mixed Methods Sampling Designs in Social Science Research. Using mixed methods – Frameworks for an integrated methodology. This leaves them too with two possible strategies. Mixed Methods Research in the Social Sciences Jessica T. DeCuir–Gunby Within the social sciences, the paradigm wars between qualitative and quantitative research have received considerable attention (Lincoln & Guba, 2000; Sale, Lohfeld, & Brazil, 2002). In the final chapter of the Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social and Behavioral Research,Tashakkori and Teddlie (2003b) noted that they had found nearly 40 different types of mixed methods designs in the litera-ture. Pragmatic threads in mixed methods research in the social sciences: The search for multiple modes of inquiry and the end of the philosophy of formalism Article Jan 2003 Mixed methods research: Contemporary issues in an emerging field. Vancouver, Canada: Empirical Press. In general, innovation is a relatively risky strategy. This provoked a discussion about the feasibility of combining data that were viewed as coming from very different philosophical points of view. Handbook of mixed methods in social and behavioral research (2nd ed.). It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This principle allows us to make a distinction between, respectively, the dominant and dominated factions in a field. Creswell and Plano Clark (2011) list a number of authors who have proposed a different definition of MMR, and conclude that there is a common trend in the content of these definitions over time. Bourdieu, P. (2007). Sociology, 41(5), 885–899. PubMed Google Scholar. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-019-09345-5, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-019-09345-5, Over 10 million scientific documents at your fingertips, Not logged in Although methods must be separable from their native epistemology for MMR to work, at the same time they have to be nested within a qualitative or a quantitative research approach, which are characterized by the data they use. This allowed these scholars to depict the line between research traditions in stark, contrasting terms, using Kuhn’s idea of “incommensurability” in the sense of its “early Kuhn” interpretation. One is to revert to a strategy of adaptation, accepting the established hierarchy in the field and embarking on a slow advancement to gain the necessary capital to make their mark from within the established order. Nastasi, B., Hitchcock, J., & Brown, L. (2010). Jahoda, M., Lazarsfeld, P., & Zeisel, H. (1933). Foundations of mixed methods research – Integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches in the social and behavioral sciences. Read more. Multimethod research: A synthesis of styles. and medical sciences including fields such as nursing, family medicine, social work, mental health, pharmacy, allied health, and others. Whereas MMR emphasizes the dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative data, a historical analysis of the production and use of methods can explore the more subtle, different interpretations and enactments of the “same” data. This is consistent with the view that MMR originated in applied disciplines and thematic studies like education and nursing, rather than “pure disciplines” like psychology and sociology (Tashakkori and Teddlie (2010b), p. 32). These differences inform method construction, controversies surrounding methods and, hence, opportunities for combining methods. A history of sociological research methods in America: 1920–1960. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc. These various disciplinary spaces are in turn part of a broader field of the social sciences in which the social status and prestige of the various disciplines is at stake. Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 164, 51–60. What are the homologies between these fields? Morse’s example in particular warns us that restricting the analysis to the authors that have published in the JMMR runs the risk of missing some important contributors to the spread of MMR through the social sciences. To answer this question, we use Pierre Bourdieu’s field analytical approach to science and academic institutions (Bourdieu 1975, 1988, 2004, 2007; Bourdieu et al. Brewer, J., & Hunter, A. ), Handbook of mixed methods in social and behavioral research (2nd ed.). Creswell describes himself as “a postpositivist in the 1970s, self-education as a constructivist through teaching qualitative courses in the 1980s, and advocacy for mixed methods (…) from the 1990s to the present” (Creswell 2011, p. 269). 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. MMR can be seen as an innovation in the social scientific field, introducing a new methodology for combining existing methods in research. Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. It is that the MMR approach requires situating methods epistemologically in order to keep them intact as unproblematic mediators of specific epistemologies and, thus, make the methodological prescriptions work. Moreover, innovative strategies will be less concerned with the intricacies of the pure discussions that prevail at the autonomous pole and be of a more practical nature, but pursued from different degrees of legitimacy according to the differences in scientific capital. 3. The Sociological Review, 64(2_suppl). Overall, there will be fewer innovations on this side. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. New York, NY: Guilford Press. Johnson, R., Onwuegbuzie, A., & Turner, L. (2007). Bourdieu, P. (1999). The space of position takings, in turn, provides the framework to study the most salient issues that are debated within the subfield. Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in the Health Sciences . Moreover, MMR was on the list of sessions in a number of conferences on qualitative research (see, e.g., Creswell 2012). We turn to this in the next section. In the final analysis, the MMR approach is based on the epistemological legitimization of the dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative data in order to define and combine methods: data obtain epistemological currency through the supposed in-severable link to certain methods, and methods are reduced to the role of acting as neutral mediators between them. Pragmatic threads in mixed methods research in the social sciences:The search for multiplemodes of inquiry and the end of the philosophy of formalism. In this article, we address three of these questions. Applications of Mixed Methods Designs 19 3.1. In C. Fleck, M. Duller, & V. Karady (Eds. Mixed methods research may be characterized from other designs according to the following (Creswell, 2012): a) Offers a rationale for the design, researchers provide the reader with a justification for the use of both quantitative and qualitative designs. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 6(2), 124–136. Fielding, meanwhile, has written two articles for the JMMR (Fielding and Cisneros-Puebla 2009; Fielding 2012). Timans, R., Wouters, P. & Heilbron, J. The same fields are also the first to cite the first textbooks and handbooks of MMR. Out of the various topics that are actively discussed, we have distilled three themes that are important for the way the subfield of MMR conveys its autonomy as a field and as a distinct approach to research.Footnote 7 In our view, these also represent the main problems with the way MMR approaches the issue of combining methods. What it amounts to in practice is a methodology that lays out the basic guidelines for doing MMR in a “proper way.” This entails the danger of straight-jacketing reflection about the use of methods, decoupling it from theoretical and empirical considerations, thus favouring the unreflexive use of a standard methodology. In our view, methods are far richer and more interesting constructs than that, and a practice of combining methods in research should reflect that.Footnote 12. Guba and Lincoln (1985) discuss the features of their version of a positivistic approach mainly in ontological and epistemological terms, but they are also careful to distinguish the opposition between naturalistic and positivist approaches from the difference between what they call the quantitative and the qualitative paradigms. New York, NY: Harper & Row. However, this practice has gained new momentum through a research strand that has recently emerged and that explicitly aims to offer a framework for combining methods. 1. Creswell, J. Le Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine/SHMC, 1999(3&4), 4–27. (1991 [1968]). (1996). Cambridge, UK: Polity. It is useful to teach as an introductory information for the courses I give about mixed methods in social science research at the Ph. Hunter and Brewer have developed a somewhat different approach to combining methods that explicitly targets data gathering techniques and largely avoids epistemological discussions. The latter refers to the emergence of institutions that support the autonomization of scholarship such as scholarly associations and scientific journals. According to Morgan, they interpreted a paradigm mainly in metaphysical terms, stressing the connections among the trinity of ontology, epistemology, and methodology as used in the philosophy of knowledge (Morgan 2007, p. 57). The importance attached to the epistemological grounding of methods and data in MMR also disregards the ontological aspects of methods. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. In the MMR discourse two epistemological positions are identified that matter most: a positivist approach that gives rise to quantitative methods and a constructivist approach that is home to qualitative methods. 1, where the number of publications mentioning “mixed methods” in the title or abstract in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science is depicted. In the second edition of their textbook, Creswell and Plano Clark (2011) provide an overview of the history of MMR by identifying five historical stages: the first one being a precursor to the MMR approach, consisting of rather atomised attempts by different authors to combine methods in their research. 20–21). Fleck, C., Heilbron, J., Karady, V., & Sapiro, G. (2016). The origins of the subfield of MMR lay in the broader field of social scientific disciplines. Research in Nursing & Health, 37(1), 3–8. Educational research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research (4th ed.). Nevertheless, as a distinct subfield, it also has specific principles that govern the production of knowledge and the rewards of domination. D. level. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. (2003, pp. When discussing institutionalization, we have to be careful about what we mean by this term. Definition from: Johnson, R. B., Onwuegbuzie, A. J., & Turner, L. A. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzM9RlO6j0. In view of the brief exploration of the indicators of institutionalisation of MMR, it seems reasonable to conclude that MMR has become a recognizable and fairly institutionalized strand of research with its own identity and profile within the social scientific field. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1(2), 112–133. Paris, France: Presses des Mines. Platt, J. Applying MM approaches at each stage of the evaluation 13 Part III. Johnson et al. Onwuegbuzie, A., Leech, N., & Collins, K. (2011). ), Handbook of mixed methods in social and behavioral research (2nd ed.). ), Handbook of mixed methods in social and behavioral research. 2018). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. The role of these entrepreneurs or ‘intellectual leaders’ who can channel intellectual energy and can take the lead in institution building has been emphasised by sociologists of science as an important aspect of the production of knowledge that is visible and recognized as distinct in the larger scientific field (e.g., Mullins 1973; Collins 1998). 16–20), this calls for a sociology of science that takes methods much more seriously as objects of study. Moreover, and more importantly, he still does not extend this non-essentialist model of categorization to the level of methods, referring, for instance, to the different strengths of qualitative and quantitative methods in mixed methods studies (Morgan 2018, p. 276). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. In D. Edge, S. Jasanof, G. Markle, J. Petersen, & T. Pinch (Eds. This guide is intended to help you organize and write a quality research paper for classes taught in the social sciences. We proceed from a different perspective on methods. Campbell, D., & Fiske, D. (1959). Levallois, C., Steinmetz, S., & Wouters, P. (2013). We identified three main concerns. We proceed as follows. Serendipities, Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences, 2(1), 33–49 Retrieved from http://serendipities.uni-graz.at/index.php/serendipities/issue/view/5. (2008). Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 12(3), 268–276. Tashakkori, A., & Teddlie, C. (2011). Hesse-Biber, S. (2010). 2003, pp. Bourdieu, P. (1975). During the 1990s and currently, the term mixed methods research has become more popular for this research movement in the behavioral, social, business, and health sciences. Instead it chooses to reify the boundaries that are drawn between “qualitative” and “quantitative” methods and reproduce them in the methodology it proposes.Footnote 11 This is an example of “circulation without context” (Bourdieu 2002, p. 4): classifications that are constructed in the field of use or reception without taking the constellation within the field of production seriously. Table 1 lists all the authors that have published in the issues of the journal since its first publication in 2007 and that have either received more than 14 (4%) of the citations allocated between the group of 343 authors (the TLCS score in Table 1), or have written more than 2 articles for the Journal (1.2% of all the articles that have appeared from 2007 until October 2013) together with their educational background (i.e., the discipline in which they completed their PhD). However, our own articles, as well as articles written by others, are The critical study of methods as “objects of objectification” also entices analyses of the way in which methods intervene between subject (researcher) and object and the way in which different methods are employed in practice to draw this boundary differently. Big data and the methodological challenges of empirical sociology. A tale of two cultures: Qualitative and quantitative research in the social sciences. For MMR to be a feasible endeavour, the differences between both forms of research must be defined as reconcilable. Savage, M., & Burrows, R. (2007). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. These labels are sticky and symbolically laden. "Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering". Sage Methodspace: Alan Bryman on research methods. The Mixed Methods Approach 9 2.1.our decisions for designing a mixed methods evaluation F 9 2.2. Morgan, D. (2018). Bryman, A. MMR challenges the mono-method approaches that are still dominant in the social sciences, and this is both refreshing and important. Finally, we conclude with some tentative proposals for an alternative view on combining methods. (2008). Its origins and circulation in vocational studies rather than classical academic disciplines can be understood from the position these studies occupy in the scientific field and the kinds of position-taking and innovations these positions give rise to. For Creswell and Plano Clark, one of the earliest examples is Campbell and Fiske’s (1959) combination of quantitative methods to improve the validity of psychological scales that gave rise to the triangulation approach to research. 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. The social construction of bakelite: Toward a theory of invention. Plano Clark, V., & Ivankova, N. (2016). Chapoulie, J. Specifically, researchers now seem to speak of mixing higher order concepts: some speak of mixing methodologies, others refer to mixing “research approaches,” or combining “types of research,” or engage in “multiple ways of seeing the social world” (Creswell and Plano Clark 2011). Morgan focuses especially on the work of Egon Guba and Yvonne Lincoln who developed what they initially termed a “naturalistic paradigm” as an alternative to their perception of positivism in the social sciences (e.g., Guba and Lincoln 1985).Footnote 9 MMR requires a more flexible or “a-paradigmatic stance” towards research, which would entail that “in real-world practice, methods can be separated from the epistemology out of which they emerged” (Patton 2002, quoted in Tashakkori and Teddlie 2010b, p. 14). (1984). This reading, in which combining methods has evolved from the rather unproblematic level (one could alternatively say “naïve” or “unaware”) of instrumental use of various tools and techniques into an act that requires deeper thinking on a methodological and epistemological level, provides the legitimacy of MMR. In a sense, epistemology provides the lifeblood for MMR in that methods in MMR are mainly seen in epistemological terms. ), Handbook of mixed methods in social and behavioral research (2nd ed.). We conclude by offering an alternative view regarding methods and method use. The majority of the researchers listed in Table 1 have a background in psychology or social psychology (35%), and sociology (25%). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches. The distribution of the form of capital that is specific to the field serves as a principle of hierarchization in the field, differentiating those that hold more capital from those that hold less. Bourdieu 1993: A case study in scientific consecration. In the scientific field, these are the agents richest in scientific capital. Serendipities, Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences, 1(1) Retrieved from http://serendipities.uni-graz.at/index.php/serendipities/issue/view/1. 169-170) reviewed a number of studies and identified 8 different ways to classify MMR studies. 56-59) to 15 typologies. Seeing combining methods as equivalent to combining epistemologies that are somehow pure and internally homogeneous because they can be placed in a qualitative or quantitative framework essentially amounts to reifying these categories. By this logic, combining quantitative methods with other quantitative methods, or qualitative methods with other qualitative methods, cannot offer the same benefits: they originate from the same way of viewing and knowing the world, so it would have the same effect as blending two gradations of the same colour paint.

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