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Why sociologists choose either quantitative or qualitative research method?  

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A) Why sociologists choose either quantitative or qualitative research method? Quantitative research method is data in statistical form, positivist sociologists tend to use this method. Quantitative research method can be a primary or a secondary research method depending on how it is used. It can be secondary data if the person doing the research uses materials that are already collected by organizations, government officials and individual people. Etc. it can also be referred to as primary data because the secondary data is collected and put together by someone. Sociologists feel that using quantitative method is a lot easier than qualitative because of the availability of information from various places, such as; the Internet, library, institution, etc are all easy to obtain. This is one of the main reasons why sociologists (researchers) use secondary data. Many sociologists are limited in what they can do because of the lack of funds given to...

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