Introduction: Rethinking qualitative and quantitative methods

Cultural Sociology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 203-216

  Majima, Shinobu ^a   Moore, Niamh ^b  

^a GAKUSHUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actor Network Theory; Bourdieu; Empirical; Latour; Methods; Qualitative; Quantitative; Science and technology studies; Social change; Socio cultural change

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249193642     PISSN: 17499755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1749975509105531     Document Type: Article

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