A common base for quality control criteria in quantitative and qualitative research

Journal/Book: Qual Quant. 1996; 30: Spuiboulevard 50, PO Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, Netherlands. Kluwer Academic Publ. 19-35.

Abstract: In the social sciences, several scientific paradigms are mutually isolated owing to their use of specific sets of methodological criteria and quality control procedures. In this article, the central hypothesis, to be tested by conceptual analysis and logical reasoning, is that recommended procedures for quality control in quantitative as well as qualitative research can be derived from a common base of regulative ideas. By 'qualitative', we mean the complex of ethnographic, anthropological, symbolic interactionist, ethnoscience and related approaches. A second goal is to demonstrate the use of regulative ideas as a parsimonious and fruitful base for a comparative analysis of methodological canons. Although our focus is on the comparison of quantitative and qualitative (or: naturalistic) research, we also pay attention to policy research as opposed to fundamental research.

Note: Article PG Swanborn, Univ Amsterdam, Ijsbaanpad 9, 1076 CV Amsterdam, Netherlands

Keyword(s): ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

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