Compare and contrast the quantitative questionnaire and qualitative interview.

Introduction

While Sociology is a wide-ranging arena with more than a few concepts and theoretical approaches, Sociologists incline to use the same sociological research methods in all their studies. The basic purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast two social research methods, quantitative questioner qualitative interview. In doing so, this essay will define these methods and evaluate them in terms of advantages and disadvantages.

Discussion

Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research

Quantitative research is a sociological research method that collects data/information in numerical form which can be put into groups, or in rank order, or measured in units of measurement. The collected data can be employed to make graphs and tables. (Neuman, 1997)

Qualitative research, on the other hand, collects data/information, but not in numerical form.  As an instance, diary acco…(short extract)