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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2024

Alex Gillespie ,
Vlad Glăveanu  and
Constance de Saint Laurent
Alex Gillespie
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Vlad Glăveanu
Affiliation:
Dublin City University
Constance de Saint Laurent
Affiliation:
National University of Ireland, Maynooth

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Pragmatism and Methodology
Doing Research That Matters with Mixed Methods
 , pp. 236 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024
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Index

abduction, 21–22, 83–84, 90–93
example, 146–150
Adams, Douglas, 74
Addams, Jane, ix, 1, 18, 21, 200
applied research, 20–21
Babylonia, 53
Bacon, Francis, ix, 61
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 6
ballung concepts, 143–145
Bateson, Gregory, 66
Bhaskar, Roy, 39, 51, 55
big qualitative data, xi–xii, 71–72, 103–104, 108–112, 129, 135–137, 156–157
Buddhism, 52
Cambridge Analytica, 113
Cartwright, Nancy, 143
complexity theory, 6, 7, 40, 53, 58, 72, 159
computational analysis, 137, 140, 149, 156, 159, 188
conspiracy theories, 27–28
creativity research, 67–69
cyranoids, 174
Darwin, Charles, 6, 7, 10, 53, 83, 86, 90
data
access, 112–114
categorizations, 144
curated/uncurated, 106
definition, 98–104
disruptive, 65–67
ethics, 114–115
events, 141–143
excerpts, 143
measures, 144
naturally occurring, 104–105
as process, 24, 98
prompted, 105–107
prompted/unprompted, 107
raw, 143
recursive restructuring, 142
structured/unstructured, 107
surprise, 101
transformation, 139–146
types, 104–108
deception, 173–175
Declaration of Helsinki, 161
deduction, 82–83, 88–90
Descartes, René, 3–6, 8, 9, 11–13, 16, 18, 40, 50, 51, 57, 82
Dewey, John, ix, 1, 2, 6, 7, 9–11, 14, 16, 18, 22, 45, 47, 53, 101, 117, 161, 168, 183, 184, 191, 201
Dick, Phillip K., 92
digitization, 103, 108, 140
doubt, 42–43
Einstein, Albert, 53, 83, 92
empowering, 61–62, 71–73, 175, 191–193, 197
epistemic fallacy, 51, 55
epistemology, 29–33
death of truth, 33
introduction, 26–27
misconceptions, 29
positions, 36–39
purism versus pluralism, 32
ethics
as box ticking, 162
data, 114–115
deception, 173–175
and the mirror of nature, 60
and the mirror theory, 60
mixed methods research, 175–178
multi-resolution research, 178–180
a pragmatist approach, 170–173
in research, 164–166
universalist assumptions, 164
experiments, 21, 69, 85, 103, 104, 109, 126–128, 130, 136, 144–145, 150–151, 154–155, 157–158, 175–176, 189–190
Farr, Rob, 4, 105
Foucault, Michel, 35, 53, 55
Habermas, Jürgen, 18, 185, 186
Hacking, Ian, 55, 63, 64, 73
Hammersley, Martyn, 52
hierarchies of knowledge, 188–191
induction, 81, 86–88
interests, 70, 184–188
emancipatory, 186–187
hermeneutic, 185–186
hierarchies, 188–191
technocratic, 185
James, William, ix, 1, 2, 6, 10–12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 26, 44, 47, 49, 57, 73, 78, 97, 121, 141, 184, 185, 201
Kafka, Franz, 92
Kuhn, Thomas, 2, 21, 53, 65, 67, 75, 95, 194
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 4, 6
Levinas, Emmanuel, 168, 175
Lewin, Kurt, ix, 61
Liu, Cixin, 92
Locke, John, 51
macro–micro, 159–160
Marková, Ivana, 2, 4, 192–194
Mead, George Herbert, ix, 1, 10, 16, 18, 45, 47, 61, 66, 67, 87, 101, 120, 170, 200
memes, 149–150
metaphors, 92
allegory of the cave, 4, 12, 50, 60
compressed computer file, 59
knowledge as a building, 14
knowledge as a growth, 14
misleading, 60, 92
origins of, 59
repairing the ship while at sea, 13, 67, 181
theories as tools, 23, 49
theory as a map, 62
theory as a mirror, 59
theory as a model or simulation, 63
theory as a tool, 61, 118, 134
triangulation, 119
universe as a mechanical clock, 3, 196
zooming in and out, 160
micro–macro, 159, 160
Midgley, Mary, 12, 13, 52, 58, 62, 90
Milgram, Stanley, 136, 144, 173, 174
mirror of nature, the, 59–61
mixed methods, 19–20
creativity, 130–131
designs, 123–129
ethics, 175–178
integration challenge, 77–78, 119–122
qualitative first, 124–126
quantitative first, 126–128
rationales, 120–121, 133
recursive, 128–129
simultaneous designs, 123–124
synergies, 129–130
terminology, 123
multi-resolution research
benefits, 156–160
big qualitative data, 136–137
categorizations, 144
data requirements, 154–156
definition, 135–139
ethics, 178–180
events, 141–143
example, 146–154
excerpts, 143
legitimacy, 157–158
macro–micro, 159–160
measures, 144
raw data, 143
recursive restructuring, 24
natural language processing, 103, 110, 111, 126, 128, 137, 146–147, 188
example, 150–154
null hypothesis testing, 71, 82
obedience, 144–145
Onwuegbuzie, Anthony, 76, 134, 136
paradigms, 2–8
Cartesian, 3
Hegelian, 5
incommensurable, 75–76
things or processes, 2–3
wars, x–xi, 132
Peirce, Charles Saunders, ix, 1, 14, 15, 18, 22, 23, 44, 47, 58, 66, 78, 79, 83, 86, 93, 95, 118, 121, 146, 175, 191
Plato, 4, 6, 12, 50, 54, 60, 64
possibility
expanding, 25
expanding human potential, 183
methodologies of, 193
postmodernism, 35–36, 190, 196
post-truth, 27, 33–35, 39, 42, 45, 48, 190
power, 17–18, 27, 36, 43, 53, 144–145, 163, 166, 176, 181, 200
pragmatism
consequences of, 46
criticisms, 16–18
etymology, 8
human activity, 8–11
introduction, 1–2
propositions, 22–25
repairing the ship while at sea, 13
Putnam, Hilary, 8, 17, 60, 72, 92, 200
qualitizing, 138, 139, 142, 146
quantitizing, 138, 139, 142, 146
questions
abductive, 83–84, 90–93
creating, 95–96
deductive, 82–83, 88–90
inductive, 81, 86–88
methods, 84–85
pragmatist approach, 78–79
typology, 132
Rawls, John, 92
reality versus Reality, 11
relativism, 17, 45–46, 55–56
replication crisis, 21, 179
responsibility, 1, 14, 24, 58, 65, 73, 114, 161, 163, 168–169, 172, 181, 192–193, 199
Rorty, Richard, 9, 11, 14, 60, 86, 185, 191
rupture, 14–16
Said, Edward, 53
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 6
statistics, 4, 30, 52, 54, 64, 82, 99, 142, 160
versus what happened, 88
subject–object dualism, 9–12
surprise, ix, 10, 12, 14–15, 17, 49, 101, 179
being sensitive to, 95–96
empowerment, 192
in an uncertain world, 14–16
surveys, 103, 105–106, 123–125, 130, 140–143, 155
talk-aloud, 155, 157
theory
enriching, 72–73
introduction, 49–50
as part of the world, 55
pragmatist, 57–58, 69–72
realist, 50–52
relativist, 52–56
as tool, 61–65, 118–119
useful, ix–xi
validity, 41–42
thought experiments, 93
modelling a tumbling rock, 54
timeless Truth, 14, 53
Toulmin, Stephen, 12, 62
triangulation, 77, 119–120
truth, 33–36, 40–41
definitions, 35
types, 40
universal laws, 40
validity, 41
truth versus Truth, 11
uncertainty. See surprise
unstructured data, 111
validity, 71, 112, 151, 156–158
Valsiner, Jaan, 4, 54, 108, 140, 192
voice, 151, 154
world-making, 10, 14, 16, 25, 55, 73, 184, 201
World Medical Association, 161

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  • Alex Gillespie, London School of Economics and Political Science, Vlad Glăveanu, Dublin City University, Constance de Saint Laurent, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
  • Book: Pragmatism and Methodology
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  • Alex Gillespie, London School of Economics and Political Science, Vlad Glăveanu, Dublin City University, Constance de Saint Laurent, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
  • Book: Pragmatism and Methodology
  • Online publication: 04 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009031066.011
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