Merged Methods: A Rationale for Full Integration - Couverture souple

Gobo, Giampietro; Fielding, Nigel G.; La Rocca, Gevisa; Van Der Vaart, Wander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1529717736 ISBN 13 : 9781529717730

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

This provocative book discusses a new turn in mixed methods research: merged methods. Moving beyond the binary quantitative-qualitative distinction, it shows you how to integrate methods in social research.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Giampietro Gobo is Professor of Methodology of Social Research and Sociology of Science at the University of Milan (Italy). He was one of the founders of the 'Qualitative Methods' Research Network of the European Sociological Association.

His interests concern scientific controversies on health issues and workplace studies. He is currently undertaking projects on immunization and COVID-19 policies, and ethnographic experiments in the area of cooperation in small teamwork. His books include Doing Ethnography (Sage, 2008), Qualitative Research Practice (co-edited with C. Seale, J. F. Gubrium and D. Silverman, Sage, 2004) and Constructing Survey Data: An Interactional Approach (with S. Mauceri, Sage, 2014).

Nigel Fielding, BA (Sussex) MA (Kent) PhD (LSE), is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of the Community of Experts of the European Science Foundation, and served on the Mixed Methods Research Association's presidential task force on the future of mixed methods.

His interests in research methodology include mixed methods, socio-spatial methods, qualitative software, interview methods, field observation, and digitally-mediated fieldwork. Nigel has authored/edited 27 books, many in research methodology, including The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Sage, 2018 (second edition), with Grant Blank and Ray Lee.

Gevisa La Rocca is Associate Professor of Sociology of Communication at the University Kore of Enna (Italy) and a member of the Scientific Council of the Processes and Cultural Institutions Group of the Italian Association of Sociology. She has a background in sociology, communication, quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Her research interests cover communication research, hashtags studies, textual data analysis, risk studies. On these topics, she has written several articles for national and international journals (Sage Open, Revue Internationale De Sociologie, Barataria. Revista Castellano-Manchega de Ciencias Sociales) and co-edited the book Technological and Digital Risk: Research Issues (with J. Martìnez-Torvisco, Peter Lang, 2020).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1529717736
• ISBN 13: 9781529717730
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible