In sociology and distributed artificial intelligence, researchers are investigating two different ways of scaling. On the one hand, there is qualitative scaling, meaning that (social) complexity is indoi:10.1007/11594116_6Michael SchilloDaniela Spresny...
Qualitative research variables may be hard to compare to each other. For instance, if a study was measuring the color of butterfly wings, how might red compare to blue? Thus, qualitative data rarely shows a ranking order with any particular meaning....
As QDA brings meaning to quantitative research, it also brings another resisted dimension. QDA raises new or untouched topics which further points to the gap between quantitative research and the reality of action in process. As Gummesson terms “The shallowness of quantitative studies” totally neg...
The sociology of education and evaluation studies were the two areas of educational research where-criticism of quantitative research and the development of qualitative methodologies initially emerged in the most intense way. A series of studies conducted by Lacey, Hargreaves and Lambert in a boys’ ...
Quantitative research is widely used in several fields of knowledge, especially in sociology and marketing. In business, this kind of study is commonly performed to obtain useful information about a population group and thus to design better strategies to reach it. The objective is generally to gai...
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SociologyAim. This paper is a report of a concept analysis of transition to motherhood for mothers with infants in a neonatal intensive care unit. Background. Mothers with infants in a neonatal intensive care unit have more difficulty in their transition to motherhood compared with mothers of ...
Quantitative research is widely used in the realms of social sciences, such as biology, chemistry, psychology, economics, sociology, and marketing. Research teams collect data that is significant to proving or disproving a hypothesis research question – known as the research objective. When they col...
Probability sampling allows for the randomization of the sample selection, meaning that each sample has the same probability of being selected for survey as any other sample. In non-random sampling, each sample unit does not have the same probability of being included in the sample. This type ...