Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research in Sociological Studies : "Conceptual and Analytical Reading of Methodological Pluralism Between Problematization and Integration"

Abstract

This article aims to shed light on the debate surrounding quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research through an epistemological and conceptual approach, based on the intellectual foundations of these three types of research within the fields of scientific inquiry in general and sociological studies in particular. It seeks to highlight the methodological problem faced by sociology researchers when studying social phenomena, namely, how to reconcile the nature of the phenomenon under investigation with the paradigm adopted in formulating the research problem in sociology. This would thus overcome the biases and subjectivity that may affect the construction of a research object, whether it be quantitative, qualitative, or mixed.