Visual Displays in Qualitative and Mixed Method Research

A Comprehensive Guide
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-30141-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

This boundary-spanning textbook explores diverse ways that visual display can advance understanding of complex social phenomenon in applied fields in the social and human sciences. It provides a window into the latest advances in mixed methods research (MMR) by investigating how integrative tables and figures have been creatively adapted in diverse contemporary contexts where qualitative methods are prominent.

The book affirms that the usefulness of visual displays is not restricted to reporting; it extends to helping investigators conceptualize a research problem, embed quality in research design during planning, advance multi-dimensional sampling, to extend analysis, and as a tool to highlight integration during reporting. Chapters feature examples that demonstrate how different shapes and textual devices that are available through basic word processing software can help an investigator to think more complexly about the multi-dimensionality or temporality of a construct, process, or phenomenon.

Tailored for emerging scholars, this comprehensive resource book will prove useful in seminars and workshops designed to assist students in writing a research proposal. It is it is an invaluable textbook for a new generation of hybrid research methods courses that combine qualitative and mixed methods in the social sciences, education, and healthcare.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Creamer, Elizabeth G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Exploring Different Types of Visual Displays  2. Embedding Visual Displays in Planning and Data Management  3. Advancing Theory Development and Refinement with Visual Displays  4. Visual Displays that Contribute to Managing and Organizing Data  5.  Constructing Visual Displays to Advance Data Analysis  6. Centering Visual Displays in Reporting Practices

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth G. Creamer is Professor Emerita from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. She is the author of two previous textbooks about mixed methods research, An Introduction to Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Research (2018) and Advancing Grounded Theory with Mixed Methods Research (2018).