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Differentiate between the qualitative and quantitative methods in Research.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Research Methods and Analysis

The distinction between qualitative and quantitative method is epistemological before it is technical: quantitative method is positivism operationalised, while qualitative method is interpretivism operationalised.

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  • Epistemological Foundations and Assumed Nature of Social Reality
  • A Systematic Comparison
  • Illustrating the Divide: Two Archetypes
  • The Logic of Theory: Input versus Output

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