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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

How do qualitative and quantitative methods supplement each other in sociological enquiry?

  • UPSC 2021
  • Research Methods and Analysis

Quantitative and qualitative method rest on different epistemological premises — positivism, running from Comte and Durkheim, treats social reality as objective and measurable; interpretivism, running through Weber's notion of Verstehen and later Blumer and Schutz, treats it as constructed through meaning that must be interpreted rather than counted.

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  • What the Quantitative Register Establishes
  • What the Qualitative Register Establishes
  • The Logic of Supplementation
  • Formalising the Logic: Mixed-Method Designs

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