TY - BOOK AU - Sandra Schubert PY - 2022 CY - München, Germany PB - GRIN Verlag SN - 9783346639509 TI - Qualitative and quantitative research methods. A comparison using the example of the survey UR - https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/1235645 N2 - In this paper, qualitative and quantitative social research will be contrasted. First, the term qualitative social research will be clarified. Then its characteristics are explained in more detail. As a representative of qualitative social research, qualitative interviewing is then presented. This is followed by the clarification of the term and the characteristics of quantitative social research. Here, the written survey is briefly presented as an example. In the last chapter both methods are contrasted and compared on the basis of different criteria. This thesis is mainly intended to serve as an overview of qualitative and quantitative social research. KW - qualitative LA - English ER -