...Giampietro Gobo Purpose After the initial life (which coincides with the origins of social research in the 1850s, and lasts until 1940s), mixed methods revive at the beginning of 1970s. However, this second life (or renaissance) receives the deleterious imprinting of quantitative methods. In fact...

...Pat Bazeley Purpose Giampietro Gobo called for new methods that combine qualitative and quantitative approaches in a single instrument, suggesting this was the next challenge facing social research and mixed methods in particular. The purpose of this paper is to respond to that challenge...

... quality and quantity is the recent “resurgence” of mixed methods. However, a new challenge presses social research: creating new methods, which could combine both qualitative and quantitative approaches in a single instrument, squeezing the advantages of both in a single technique. With the benefit...

...Michelle Harbour; Veronika Kisfalvi Purpose The purpose of this article is to propose an approach using mixed methods appropriate for studying polysemic concepts. Design/methodology/approach Anchored in cognitive approaches, the methods relied on a generally applicable conceptual framework...