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In recent decades, researchers pragmatically adopted a paradigmatic relativism to overcome the longstanding paradigm of the incompatibility of positivism and constructivism in social science (Morgan 2007, 58; Tashakkori and Teddlie 2008, 9). These mixed or multi-methods research designs are merging different methods in different stages of the research process aiming to overcome fundamental methodological shortcomings of each research paradigm in social science, contextuality, and generalizability in particular. Depending on the research question, a mixed-methods design can be led by a confirmatory approach as mainly applied in quantitative research or an exploratory one typical for qualitative research (Teddlie and Tashakkori 2008, 33). |
