Methodological ontology
Keywords:
quantitative methodology; qualitative methodology; positivism; interpretivism; objectivism; methodological ontologyAbstract
The aim of this article is to consider the question why we can combine quantitativeand qualitative methodologies, which represent different and contradictoryepistemologies, in social research. This article suggests that, in addition topragmatism, the more fundamental thing underpinning and legitimizing themixture of the methodologies is the methodological ontology of objectivism.
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