Differences between Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods in Social Science

What are the main
differences between
quantitative and qualitative
research methods in the social
science

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART 1, SECTION 1......................................................................................................................3
PART 1, SECTION 2......................................................................................................................4
Types of methodologies are commonly used in quantitative research.......................................4
Types of methodologies are commonly used in qualitative research.........................................5
Reason of difference in sample size in qualitative and quantitative research.............................5
PART 2............................................................................................................................................5
Key arguments of your quantitative articles...............................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The major purpose of conducting this research is associated with analysing difference
between quantitative and qualitative research methods so that accordingly social science
researches can be performed by researchers in significant manner. By conducting this research
the researcher may analyse differentiated concepts in relation to methods used in research so that
the same can be used for conducting future researches in appropriate manner. In this report
various sections are included in which elaboration of different aspects are given. In this section 1
is related with the manner in which qualitative and quantitative methods can be used and
importance of various philosophies are elaborated (Rutberg and Bouikidis, 2018). In the next
section argument related to qualitative and quantitative articles are given which are helpful in
gathering data in significant manner in order to gain research objectives as well. In the last
section ways in which information can be collected are also enlightened which is used by
researcher to gather data from various sources for drawing final conclusion. There are various
terms which are included in this report such as research philosophies and research choice. There
are two types of research philosophies such as positivism and Interpretivism. Positivism
philosophy is highly structured which is used to manage large samples in which quantitative data
is being analysed. Besides this Interpretivism is associated with performing research with small
samples in which research is performed with qualitative manner. On the other hand there are two
types of research choices such as qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative research choice is
associated with providing in depth knowledge whereas quantitative research choice is used in
order to obtain statistical data.
PART 1, SECTION 1
There are various approaches in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies used
for social science research. As in social science research various research philosophies and
approaches are used in such researches and they all are helping the research to get executed in
appropriate manner. Research philosophies are defined as such principles which can be followed
by researcher in order to execute aims and objectives of research in such a manner that overall
efficacy can be attained (Aspers and Corte, 2019). Positivism philosophy is followed by
researcher in order to analyse highly structured data and analyse large samples. Besides this
positivism philosophy is helpful in analysing quantitative research methodologies so that