Beyond Blumer and symbolic interactionism: The qualitative-quantitative issue in social theory and methodology

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 303-326

  Hanzel, Igor ^a  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Blumer; Hegel; quality; quantity; the qualitative quantitative divide

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051651760     PISSN: 00483931     EISSN: 15527441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0048393110375433     Document Type: Article

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