Disadvantages Of Mixed Method

This paper aims to define mixed methods research and to answer the following question: if researchers are on the same team, yet have different philosophical approaches, can this be reconciled? In general, mixed research or mixed method was defined as “a synthesis that includes ideas from qualitative and quantitative research”(Johnson, Onwuegbuzie, & Turner, 2007). They also, mentioned other definitions for the mixed method such as Greene’s definition that is “Mixed method inquiry is an approach to investigating the social world that ideally involves more than one methodological tradition and thus more than one way of knowing, along with more than one kind of technique for gathering, analyzing, and representing human phenomena, all for the purpose

The position that the author will be taken in this paper regarding resolving the differences in the philosophical approaches between researchers working in the same team is by integration mixed method into the research methodology.

To support the author’s position regarding mixed method as the ideal approach to solve the philosophical conflict between researchers working in the same team, a discussion about the advantages and the appropriateness of the mixed method approach is important. First of all, mixed method serves as a bridge to present different philosophical positions. Creswell et al. mentioned that the mixed method provides an opportunity to bridge the conflict between different philosophical perspectives such as constructivism, pragmatism, postpositivism and transformative perspectives (2011). They stated that this would help in creating dialectal standpoints that help in advancing both objective and subjective knowledge. They illustrated the practical diverse approach of pragmatism where it could highlight the importance of the research question by focusing on the objective and subjective aspects of the research problem. On the other hand, the orienting framework of transformative