Making them count: How effective has official encouragement of quantitative methods been in British sociology?

Current Sociology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 690-704

  Platt, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Sociological Association (BSA); British sociology; Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); qualitative methods; quantitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865161179     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392112440438     Document Type: Article

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