Mixed Methods

Interviews, Surveys, and Cross-Cultural Comparisons

Robert W. Schrauf (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2016
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781107147126 (ISBN)

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This book is intended for social scientists and graduate students in social science disciplines who conduct mixed methods, cross-cultural research. The book develops, explains, and illustrates both theory and methods to analyse and integrate qualitative and quantitative data collected from multiple groups in multiple languages and to make principled cross-cultural comparisons.

Attention to cultural variation has become an important source of insight in the social, behavioural, and health sciences. Mixed methods research provides an especially sensitive and powerful way to make systematic cross-cultural comparisons, in which qualitative approaches give a window onto cultural meaning and the phenomenological 'feel' of social life, and quantitative methods facilitate hypothesis testing and sophisticated modelling of social and behavioural phenomena. For researchers engaged in cross-cultural projects, this book offers a theory-based approach to integrating 'numbers' and 'text' based on discourse as the originary form of data collection, the method and framework of analysis, and the medium of publication. The book provides concise explanations, targeted examples, step-by-step instructions, and actual analyses of cross-cultural, quantitative survey data and qualitative interview data, with special attention to language(s) and translation as clues to the study of cultural variation.

Robert Schrauf is Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University. He co-edited Language Development over the Lifespan (2009; with Kees de Bot, University of Groningen) and Dialogue and Dementia: Cognitive and Communicative Resources for Engagement (2014; with Nicole Müller, University of Linköping).

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Mixed methods cross-cultural research and discourse; 2. Four empirical mixed methods cross-cultural comparisons; 3. Language and the interactional emergence of cultural meanings; 4. From interactional events to transcripts and spreadsheets; 5. Language(s), translation(s), and bilingual(s); 6. Worked example: cultivating cultural and linguistic insight in the Alzheimer's beliefs study; 7. Cross-cultural survey response and the sociocultural field; 8. Worked example: the cross-cultural survey in the Alzheimer's beliefs study; 9. Cross-cultural interviews: 'doing' culture in discursive interaction; 10. Worked example: interactional interviews in the Alzheimer's beliefs study; 11. Mixed methods cross-cultural comparison: a discourse-centered framework; References; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.12.2016
Zusatzinfo	10 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	550 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-13	9781107147126 / 9781107147126
Zustand	Neuware