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It is common for qualitative research to be portrayed as "inductive" (or sometimes "abductive") in character and for quantitative research to be treated as "deductive" (or "hypothetico-deductive"). Indeed, these are sometimes treated as defining features of the two sorts of research. The contrast here is between developing concepts from a prior theory or deriving them out of some corpus of data. Alternatively, one could say that the difference is between inquiry that begins with a theory or set of hypotheses and research that is more exploratory in character, starting from interest in a particular type of action, setting, group of people, or general issue. Some caution needs to be exercised, however, regarding the meaning of induction and deduction and certainly in treating them as referring to ...
by Martyn Hammersley ; edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams.
Includes bibliographical references and index.