Introduction -- Part I: Problems with Quantitative and Qualitative Research -- 1. What's Wrong with Quantitative Research? -- 2. Quantitative Research on Meritocracy: The Problem of Inference from Outcomes to Opportunities -- 3. Qualitative Causal Analysis: Grounded Theorising and the Qualitative Survey -- 4. Qualitative Research and the Fallacies of Composition and Division: The Case of Ethnic Inequalities in Educational Achievement -- Part II: Exploring Case-Focused Approaches to Causal Analysis -- 5. Set Theoretic versus Correlational Methods: the Case of Ability and Educational Achievement -- 6. Creating Typologies: Comparing Fuzzy Qualitative Comparative Analysis with Fuzzy Cluster Analysis -- 7. Analytic Induction versus Qualitative Comparative Analysis \ Conclusion \ References \ Index
Summary
This work provides an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues
