This innovative research design text will help you make informed choices when carrying out your research project. Covering both qualitative and quantitative approaches, and with examples drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines, the authors explain what is at stake when choosing a research design, and discuss the trade-offs that researchers have to make when considering issues such as: causality; categories and classification; heterogeneity; interdependence; time

This book will appeal to students and researchers looking for an in-depth understanding of research design issues to help them design their projects in a thoughtful and responsible way.

Conclusions: Connecting the Dots

At the conclusion of our journey across research traditions, approaches, and trade-offs, it is useful to ask what the core message is that emerges from this book. Granted that the previous chapters allow for diversity and reasoned, moderate, analytic eclecticism – which is the opposite of saying that ‘anything ...

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