Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Research Approaches Via the Phenomenological Method

International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 85-99

Posted: 4 Nov 2010 Last revised: 8 Feb 2011

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William P. Fisher

University of California, Berkeley - BEAR Center

A. Jackson Stenner

MetaMetrics, Inc.

Date Written: August 3, 2010

Abstract

Separated and mixed applications of qualitative and quantitative methods are typically encumbered by markedly different philosophical orientations. Multiple inefficiencies arise when mixed methods work at cross purposes with each other. The phenomenological method, however, integrates qualitative and quantitative concerns in ways that orient research toward uniform criteria of substantive meaningfulness and mathematical rigor. Three characteristics of a qualitative-quantitative methodological pluralism are described: structural invariance, substantive interpretability, and the display of anomaly. When combined with networked information technologies, new opportunities emerge for a qualitatively meaningful and quantitatively precise measurement framework in the research and practice of the human sciences.

Keywords: mixed methods, Rasch measurement, phenomenology, philosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, network thinking, collective cognition

Suggested Citation

Fisher, William P. and Stenner, A. Jackson, Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Research Approaches Via the Phenomenological Method (August 3, 2010). International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 85-99, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1702365

William P. Fisher (Contact Author)

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A. Jackson Stenner

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