Inter-Method Mixing as a Gateway to Methodological Innovation. (June 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Creamer, Elizabeth G.; Schoonenboom, Judith
• Other Names: Creamer Elizabeth guest-editor.; Schoonenboom Judith guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: American behavioral scientist. Volume 62:Number 7(2018)
• Page Start: 879
• Page End: 886
• Publication Date: 2018-06
• Subjects: inter-method mixing -- methodological mixing; Social sciences -- Periodicals; Political science -- Periodicals; United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; United States -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; 300
• DOI: 10.1177/0002764218756917
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0002-7642

Abstract

We advance the idea that with the commitment to the intentional engagement of multiple sources of data or analytical procedures to explore complex problems as its core defining feature, the field of mixed methods may now be at a point that we can consider it as an inquiry logic that has the potential to spawn the construction of new methodologies. The special issue invites further conversation that builds on the challenge of mixing at the methodological level.