Abstract

The Multimethod Approach and Its Promises A Healthy Skepticism About Theory and Method Formulating Research Problems Collecting Data with Multiple Methods Finding the Objects to Study Measuring Concepts and Assessing Measurement Validity Explaining Social Phenomena Causally A Postscript on Postmodernism Making Research Public: The Social Context of Multimethod Research

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SkepticismPostmodernismContext (archaeology)Social researchPsychologyEpistemologyExternal validitySocial psychologyManagement scienceData scienceSocial scienceSociologyComputer sciencePhilosophyEngineeringGeography

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1989
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John Brewer, Albert Hunter (1989). Multimethod Research: A Synthesis of Styles. .