- • Involve the use of observation to addressresearch questions. Both methodologies"describe their data, construct explanatoryarguments
- From their data, and speculate about whythe outcomes they observed happened asthey did"
- Use techniques that are relativelyanalogous at some level of specificity, suchas triangulation.
- Try to discover meaning from theinterpretation of data.
- Use analytical techniques in an attempt toexplain complex relationships in the socialscience world
- Utilize techniques to verify their data.
- Use data reduction as an important part ofthe data analysis process.
- Promote the role of theory by testingtheory (quantitative methods) or initiatingand building theory (qualitative methods).
- Can use the same collection of data to getresults