The Utility of Mixed Methods in the Study of Violence
| dc.contributor.author | Thaler, Kai | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-04T09:14:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-04T09:14:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-04T07:32:52Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study of violence has expanded in recent decades, concurrent with a rise in the use of mixed quantitative and qualitative methods in research throughout the social and health sciences. Methodologists have also begun to engage in a thorough theorization of both the epistemological foundations and empirical practice of mixed methods research. Mixed methods enable us to tie the broader patterns revealed by quantitative analysis to underlying processes and causal mechanisms that qualitative research is better able to illuminate, examining and explicating the interactions of structure and agency. This paper examines how qualitative and quantitative research methods may best be integrated in the study of violence, providing and critiquing examples from previous work on different forms of violence. Through the use of mixed methods, we can both improve the accordance of theories and empirical studies with social reality and gain a more nuanced understanding of the causes and consequences of violence. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Thaler, K. (2012). <i>The Utility of Mixed Methods in the Study of Violence</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19399 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Thaler, Kai <i>The Utility of Mixed Methods in the Study of Violence.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19399 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Thaler, K. (2012). The Utility of Mixed Methods in the Study of Violence. Centre for Social Science Research. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Thaler, Kai AB - The study of violence has expanded in recent decades, concurrent with a rise in the use of mixed quantitative and qualitative methods in research throughout the social and health sciences. Methodologists have also begun to engage in a thorough theorization of both the epistemological foundations and empirical practice of mixed methods research. Mixed methods enable us to tie the broader patterns revealed by quantitative analysis to underlying processes and causal mechanisms that qualitative research is better able to illuminate, examining and explicating the interactions of structure and agency. This paper examines how qualitative and quantitative research methods may best be integrated in the study of violence, providing and critiquing examples from previous work on different forms of violence. Through the use of mixed methods, we can both improve the accordance of theories and empirical studies with social reality and gain a more nuanced understanding of the causes and consequences of violence. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - The Utility of Mixed Methods in the Study of Violence TI - The Utility of Mixed Methods in the Study of Violence UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19399 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19399 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Thaler K. The Utility of Mixed Methods in the Study of Violence. 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19399 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.title | The Utility of Mixed Methods in the Study of Violence | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |