Is there a dilemma in political related research between the qualitative vs. the quantitative?
Political related research is a threestage process. Scientists are in charge of an epistemological phase where the object of its study is constructed. During a theoretical-logical phase, they must also clearly establish their research problems and formulate their hypotheses. And finally, there is a...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1999 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA |
| Repositorio: | Iztapalapa. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistaiztapalapa.izt.uam.mx:article/390 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaiztapalapa.izt.uam.mx/index.php/izt/article/view/390 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | quantitative qualitative political research cuantitativo cualitativo investigación política |
| Sumario: | Political related research is a threestage process. Scientists are in charge of an epistemological phase where the object of its study is constructed. During a theoretical-logical phase, they must also clearly establish their research problems and formulate their hypotheses. And finally, there is a phase where different techniques are applied in order to obtain the information they require. This paper argues that it is during the first stage that defining whether it will be a qualitative or a quantitative analysis is supposed to be determined, but that pretending to choose only one of them is a false dilemma, for political science requires of both of them |
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