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What do you understand be ‘Mixed method’? Discuss its strengths and limitations in Social research.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Research Methods and Analysis

Mixed methods research is the deliberate, planned combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches within a single study — not simply the coincidental use of both somewhere in a researcher's career, but their integration around one research question.

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  • Three Core Designs
  • Strengths: Complementarity, Breadth, and Triangulation
  • Limitations: Cost, Divergence, and the Incommensurability Objection
  • An Indian Illustration: Farmer Distress and Indebtedness
  • The Pragmatist Resolution

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