Beyond Bias? The Promise and Limits of Q Method in Human Geography

Professional Geographer

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 636-648

  Robbins, Paul ^a   Krueger, Rob ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories; Qualitative methodology; Quantitative methodology; Reflexivity; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 0034485238     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00252     Document Type: Article

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