Cooper, Barry. <br/><br/>
Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide :  Explorations in Case-Focused Causal Analysis. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (289 pages) 
 - Continuum Research Methods Series .
 - Continuum Research Methods Series .
<br/><br/>Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Qualitative-Quantitative Divide -- Part I Problems with Quantitative and Qualitative Research -- 1 What's Wrong with Quantitative Research? -- 2 Quantitative Research on Meritocracy: The Problem of Inference from Outcomes to Opportunities -- 3 Qualitative Causal Analysis: Grounded Theorizing and the Qualitative Survey -- 4 Qualitative Causal Analysis and the Fallacies of Composition and Division: The Example of Ethnic Inequalities in Educational Achievement -- Part II Exploring Case-Focused Approaches to Causal Analysis -- 5 Analytic Induction versus Qualitative Comparative Analysis -- 6 Set Theoretic versus Correlational Methods: The Case of Ability and Educational Achievement -- 7 Creating Typologies: Comparing Fuzzy Qualitative Comparative Analysis with Fuzzy Cluster Analysis -- Conclusion -- Author Index -- Subject Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781441100634 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Qualitative research.<br/>Quantitative research.<br/>Causation.<br/>Social sciences--Methodology.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>H62.C4466 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>001.4/2