The Quantitative Imperative: Positivism, Naive Realism and the Place of Qualitative Methods in Psychology

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-31

  Michell, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

positivism; qualitative methods; quantitative imperative; realism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037281685     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354303013001758     Document Type: Article

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