Post-positivism and the pragmatics of leisure research

Leisure Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 341-346

  Henderson, Karla A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meanings; Paradigms; Qualitative; Quantitative

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RESEARCH; SOCIAL THEORY;

EID: 79960621982     PISSN: 01490400     EISSN: 15210588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2011.583166     Document Type: Article

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