scholarly journals Constructional, performance and social characteristics of contemporary Slovenian wedding dress

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (01) ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
FUNDUK IRENA ◽  
PAVKO-ČUDEN ALENKA
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Symbolic Meanings

The white wedding dress is still very popular among today’s brides from many cultures and societies. It is still presented as a magical manifestation of all that is sacred. On the other hand, popular white wedding ideals are strongly advertised and constantly presented in numerous movies and reality shows, magazines and commercials. Contemporary bridal culture and fashions in Slovenia are created in wedding salons with their rental collections, which follow the globally popular trend of Western white weddings. The purpose of the research was to study the symbolic meanings of the white wedding dress in Slovenia, and to explore and identify its constructional, performance and social characteristics. The mixed methods approach was used. First, critical discursive analysis (CDA) was used to identify the symbolic meanings of the white wedding dress in the context of gender relations. Additionally, a quantitative approach was conducted with an aim to evaluate the presence and strength of previously identified elements. In the qualitative research, symbolic elements of the contemporary white wedding dress: entrapment, dependency, slenderness, inauthenticity and exaggerated attributes of brides bodies were identified. The results of the quantitative research proved that all identified symbolic elements are very strongly present in contemporary Slovenian bridal fashion

The Politics and Symbolism of the #ThisFlag in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinashe Mawere
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
National Flag ◽  
Cultural Tools

In the context of the hashtag movement #ThisFlag, this paper examines the sensual affects drawn from flag symbolism and why the Zimbabwean flag is policed by the state. It uses the symbolism and politics of the hashtag movements by focusing on Evan Mawarire’s national lament and the Zimbabwean flag. It employs a literary and discursive analysis of Mawarire’s lament using desktop research on the contestations surrounding the flag. It shows that in dominant nationalist discourses, the flag is imaged as the land/nation and feminised to warrant it utmost respect, protection, sanctity and re/productive capacity. On the other hand, the #ThisFlag has made use of the flag to resist and subvert grand and naturalised dominant discourses of nationalism and citizenship to foster new imagi/nations of the nation. The use of the flag by the movement provoked ZANU-PF’s ownership of the national flag, which is quite similar to and has been drawn from the flag of the party, hence the movement was challenging the identity of the party, its ownership and its relevance. The paper shows the fluidity of symbols and symbolic meanings and why #ThisFlag had symbolic radical power and the possibilities of using the state’s and ZANU-PF’s cultural tools to challenge ZANU-PF’s hold on national knowledge and power. It contributes to our understanding of both state-power retention and how subaltern voices can uncover the agency of subjects within the very instruments of control incessantly used by dominant regimes.

How Marketers Conduct Mixed Methods Research

2016 ◽  
pp. 187-196
Author(s):  
Roger Baran
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods

The complimentary nature of qualitative and quantitative research methods are examined with respect to a study assessing the market's view of a training and development institute in the Middle East. The qualitative portion consisted of focus groups conducted with seven distinct market segments served by the institute. The results proved insightful with respect to uncovering and understanding differences of opinion among the seven groups; however, taken alone, the qualitative research would have been very misleading with respect to the institute's standing in the Middle East.

Evidence and Evidentiality in Quechua Narrative Discourse

2018 ◽  
pp. 221-242
Author(s):  
Rosaleen Howard
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Epistemic Modality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Narrative Performance ◽  
The One

This chapter discusses the working of evidentiality in Quechua narrative performance from the central highlands of Peru. In the Quechua narratives analysed, the grammatical marking of source and status of knowledge, and discursive ways of expressing evidence for knowing what is known, are shown to vary strikingly according to performance related factors. On the one hand, narrators base discursively expressed evidence for knowledge, and the veracity and authenticity of the stories they tell, on lived experience. On the other hand, in Huamalíes Quechua the assertion of knowledge and affirmation of validity are grammatically marked by evidential, epistemic modality, and tense suffixes. Taken together, the performative dimensions of discursively expressed evidence, and grammatical choices around evidentiality, constitute the epistemological underpinning of stories about the past in Huamalíes Quechua; both are taken into account in the mixed methods approach to the analysis of Quechua narrative adopted here.

scholarly journals Using Mixed-methods Research in Health & Education in Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 45-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preeti Mahato ◽  
Caterine Angell ◽  
Edwin Van Teijlingen ◽  
Padam P Simkhada
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Pragmatic Research

In the areas of health promotion and health education, mixed-methods research approach has become widely used. In mixed-methods research, also called multi-methods research, the researchers combine quantitative and qualitative research designs in a single study. This paper introduces the mixed-methods approach for use in research in health education. To illustrate this pragmatic research approach we are including an example of mixed-methods research as applied in Nepalese research.Journal of Health Promotion Vol.6 2008, p.45-48

scholarly journals Research Methods

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Williams
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Report Writing ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Conducting Research

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0in 34.2pt 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This paper discusses three common research approaches, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, along with the various research designs commonly used when conducting research within the framework of each approach. Creswell (2002) noted that quantitative research is the process of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and writing the results of a study, while qualitative research is the approach to data collection, analysis, and report writing differing from the traditional, quantitative approaches. This paper provides a further distinction between quantitative and qualitative research methods. This paper also presents a summary of the different research methods to conduct research in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies.</span></span></p>

Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Research Sampling Strategies

Education ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy C. Guetterman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Sampling Strategies ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Purposeful Sampling ◽  
Relationship Of

Sampling is a critical, often overlooked aspect of the research process. The importance of sampling extends to the ability to draw accurate inferences, and it is an integral part of qualitative guidelines across research methods. Sampling considerations are important in quantitative and qualitative research when considering a target population and when drawing a sample that will either allow us to generalize (i.e., quantitatively) or go into sufficient depth (i.e., qualitatively). While quantitative research is generally concerned with probability-based approaches, qualitative research typically uses nonprobability purposeful sampling approaches. Scholars generally focus on two major sampling topics: sampling strategies and sample sizes. Or simply, researchers should think about who to include and how many; both of these concerns are key. Mixed methods studies have both qualitative and quantitative sampling considerations. However, mixed methods studies also have unique considerations based on the relationship of quantitative and qualitative research within the study.

scholarly journals Bricolage research in history education as a scholarly mixed-methods design

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
History Education ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Discipline Area

Research using a mixed-methods design is increasingly becoming the norm, crossing the myriad of educational fields of research, including history education. While commonly interpreted as a combining of qualitative and quantitative methods, mixed methods in history education can also extend to a bricolage approach, whereby the epistemological aspect of research is explicitly used to frame a study incorporating a combination of interdisciplinary methodologies and theoretical underpinnings. It extends beyond the often asserted binary of qualitative and quantitative research. In considering directions of qualitative research in the broad discipline area of education, the work of researchers such as Kincheloe (2005) and Denzin and Lincoln (2005) is used throughout this paper within a qualitative research context based on the work of Kincheloe and Tobin (2006). Adopting their approach of investigating the complexity of the lived world means placing research within a number of contexts. Research can be framed – from conceptualization to data gathering to analysis – in a range of contexts, appropriately matched between stage of research and underpinning theories. This paper reports on how bricolage can be used to frame research in history education.

scholarly journals Customizable Modalities for Individualized Learning: Examining Patterns of Engagement in Dual-Layer MOOCs

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Crosslin ◽  
Justin T. Dellinger ◽  
Srecko Joksimovic ◽  
Vitomir Kovanovic ◽  
Dragan Gasevic
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Additional Research ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Individualized Learning ◽  
Educational Framework ◽  
Quantitative Examination

Dual-layer MOOCs are an educational framework designed to create customizable modality pathways through a learning experience. The basic premise is to design two framework choices through a course - one that is instructor guided and the other that is student-determined and open. Learners have the option to create their own customized pathway by choosing or combining both modalities as they see fit at any given time in the course. This mixed-methods study sought to understand the patterns that learners engaged in during a course designed with this pathway framework. The results of the quantitative examination of the course activity are presented, as well as the categories and themes that arose from the qualitative research. The results of the analysis indicates that learners value the ability to choose the pathway that they engage the course in. Additional research is needed to improve the technical and design aspects of the framework.

scholarly journals Potential challenges in conducting clinical trials with mixed methods approach

2019 ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Muhamed Ibnas ◽  
M. Asim ◽  
B. Sathian
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Mixed Method Approach ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Method Approach

Background: Clinical trial is being conducted to assess the safety, efficacy and/or dosage regimen of a drug or therapeutic intervention in human subjects which are carefully selected on predetermined criteria. On the other hand, qualitative research is open-ended focuses on the depth of understanding of issues that are beyond the scope of quantitative analysis. Although, quantitative method is predominated in clinical research; over the past decade qualitative approach is being recognized for its value and unique contributions and is increasingly incorporated in clinical research. The combination of these two approaches in a single study is referred as Mixed Method design. Herein, we aim to explore the major challenges and pitfalls in conducting clinical trials with mixed method approach. Materials and methods: We reviewed the published literature in English language through the research engines (PubMed and Google Scholar) involving clinical trials/studies with mixed method approach to look for the potential challenges and issues identified during the conduct of mixed method research (MMR). Results: There are various issues in conducting clinical trials with mixed methods approach as it is time consuming, requires expertise, skills and methodological training for both quantitative and qualitative research. Also, there are a number of challenges observed while conducting MMR, such as obtaining informed consent, safety events reporting, data retrieval, study documentation, data confidentiality and storage, inappropriate integration and interpretation of the data as well as incorrect ordering, preferences and objective of each method. Conclusion: Use of hybrid approach in clinical trial can provide deeper understanding and insights of research question with higher validity and reliability. MMR has certain challenges which can be overcome by in-depth methodological training and collaboration. Therefore, strong collaboration between clinical and social scientists in necessary to design a competitive funding grant for mixed method research. Finally, integration and implementation of MMR is crucial for conducting pragmatic trials.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PENGARUH LEMBAGA PEMBIAYAAN DALAM MENINGKATKAN UMKM DI INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dian Ariani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Mix Methods

ABSTRACT  Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises or better known as UMKM have a very important role in increasing the country's growth. These UMKM were able to survive in 1998 compared to large companies in Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to analyze to encourage the development of UMKM in Indonesia and to provide solutions in increasing UMKM. The research method used is a combination of quantitative research with qualitative research (Mixed Methods). The results of this study are UMKM that are looking for very fast financing, which can be used from a variety of jobs, personal and personal and lifestyle. Yes, there are also UMKM that do not innovate or even decline. The decline in UMKM business was caused by two things related to economic conditions and unfavorable conditions. Keywords: UMKM, Mix Methods and Financing Institutions

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