1. ACS 301 November 27, 2008 Mixing qualitative and quantitative

2. The case against mixing qual and quant Methods have fixed epistemological assumptions. You can change them. Yes, I agree. Though I would say that qual and quant have conflicting paradigms. Embedded methods argument Paradigm argument

4. Mixing: an example “ The aim was to study managers in companies that represented the broad ‘new capitalism’ experience.” “ We collected two forms of data…A questionnaire…[and] We also conducted interviews.” Source: Wajcman, Judy and Bill Martin. 2002. "Narratives of identity in modern management: the corrosion of gender differences?" Sociology 36:985-1002.

6. Triangulation I want to corroborate what I found with a quantitative survey. Well you can do some interviews and see if the main trends are the same.

7. Facilitation I use qual methods to assist in my quant research. And I use quant methods to help in my qual research!

9. Complementarity You really can’t do everything with a single method That’s true. Sometimes I need to use other methods to answer the entire question. Often, however, people mistake this for “more is better.”

10. Types of complementarity

11. Mixing: the quant findings “ Fundamentally, the basic career experiences…or men and women hardly differ.” Source: Wajcman, Judy and Bill Martin. 2002. "Narratives of identity in modern management: the corrosion of gender differences?" Sociology 36:985-1002.

12. Mixing: the qual findings “ Women were much more concerned with the boundaries…” “ Women do not necessarily ground their private identities in their workplace ones…” Source: Wajcman, Judy and Bill Martin. 2002. "Narratives of identity in modern management: the corrosion of gender differences?" Sociology 36:985-1002.