Zusammenfassung der Ressource
QUANTITATIVE
- HISTORY
- originally inspired by natural
sciences in the 19th century
- was called 'scientific method'
when firstly used in Social
Sciences
- CHARACTERISTICS
- using numbers
- categories and values need to be
done before doing the research
- variables rather than cases
- statistics
- standard procedures to
assess objective reality
- generalizable
- STRENGTHS
- precise measurement
- reliable data
- generalizable to
other contexts
- WEAKNESSES
- can't do justice to the
subjective variety of
individuals
- not very sensitive in covering reasons