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¶ … measurements that can be ascertained objectively. They employ statistical and mathematical data analysis; gathered through such techniques as polls, questionnaires, surveys or through manipulation of already existing data via computational techniques. Quantitative research specializes on collecting numerical data and applying it across groups in general terms, or explaining a specific phenomenon (University of South California, 2016).
Qualitative Research
It can be inferred from the use of the term qualitative that this is a research method that centrally focuses on the quality of entities, including meanings and processes that are not examined or measured through experiments. Researchers employing qualitative methods emphasize the social structure and nature of reality. They examine the close relationship between the researcher and what they are studying. The situational differentials that affect research and inquiry are also examined. They place a lot of significance on value-filled inquiry aspect (University of South California, 2016).
Examples of Quantitative and Qualitative Research Studies
Qualitative research, as has been pointed out earlier in this paper, focuses on answering questions that highlight how social experience comes about and assigned meaning. On the other hand, quantitative research emphasizes on measuring and analyzing the causal relationships between variables as opposed to processes (University of South California, 2016).
The articles below are examples of the two that the authors front for race sociologies transcends reconstructions at surface level. The paper demonstrates both race resilience as an element around which social relationships are organized and the tricky manner in which race issues have changed, transmuted and been pluralized. The article demonstrates qualitative research through various ways including attempting to describe and interpret the behavior of humans via the exploration and analysis of their occupied space or material culture. Qualitative research employs a reflexive process every step of the process in order to minimize biases by researchers, interpretations and presuppositions by making them clear so as to enable the reader to better interpret the general research validity in each case (University of South California, 2016).
Quantitative Evidence of the Continuing Significance of Race: Tableside Racism in Full-Service Restaurants, is the title of the article by Zachary W. Brewster and Sarah Nell Rusche. It explores quantitative research. The piece examines the…
REFERENCES
Brewster, W. Z., & Rusche, N. S. (2012). Quantitative Evidence of the Continuing Significance of Race: Tableside Racism in Full-Service Restaurants. Journal of Black Studies, Vol 43, No. 4, 359 -- 384. Retrieved from Sage Journals: http://jbs.sagepub.com/content/43/4/359.full.pdf+html
Meer, N., & Nayak, A. (2015). Race Ends Where? Race, Racism and Contemporary Sociology. Sociology, Vol 49, No. 6, NP3 -- NP20. Retrieved from Sage Journals: http://soc.sagepub.com/content/49/6/NP3.full.pdf+html
University of South California. (2016, October 28). Organizing Your Social Sciences Research Paper: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods. Retrieved October 28, 2016, from University of South California: http://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/quantitative/qualitative
Baxter P. & Jack S. Qualitative Case Study Approach: Design and Implementation for Inexperienced Researchers. The Qualitative Report, 13(4), 544-559 This paper treats case study as an approach in research. A qualitative case study approach avails tools for research in complex phenomena in context. If appropriately applied, the methodology is a valuable tool for health sciences in evaluating programs, crafting interventions and developing theory. This paper seeks to guide the inexperienced
Understanding the Value of Qualitative Research Qualitative researchers have a number of different research strategies available to them, including case studies, phenomenology, grounded theory and ethnography. Each of these research strategies has its respective strengths and weaknesses, but ethnography in particular represents a special challenge since it seeks to learn more about a group of people from the perspective of an insider. The purpose of this paper is to provide a
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