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The Dilemma of Qualitative Method

Originally published in 1989, The Dilemma of Qualitative Method is a stimulating guide to the discussion of qualitative versus quantitative approaches to social research, originated in nineteenth-century debates about the relationship between the methods of history and natural science. One of the key theorists in this area was Chicago sociologist Herbert Blumer. The book analyses the historical context of the dispute and provides a detailed account and systematic analysis Blumers methodological writings including his doctoral thesis. The strategies for qualitative research advocated by Blumer within the Chicago tradition are reviewed and assessed.

The Dilemma of Qualitative
Method

Herbert Blumer and the Chicago Tradition

By Martyn Hammersley

First published in 1989

by Routledge

This edition first published in 2018 by Routledge

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1989 Martyn Hammersley

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THE DILEMMA OF
QUALITATIVE METHOD

The dispute over the value of qualitative versus quantitative approaches to social research originated in nineteenth-century debates about the relationship between the methods of history and natural science. Within sociology, this dispute first arose in the United States during the 1920s and 30s, between adherents of case study and statistical methods. One of the main advocates of case study was the Chicago sociologist, Herbert Blumer. His influential writings on methodology provide a link between this earlier controversy and the debates of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. However, Blumers arguments for qualitative, or naturalistic, method retain a central ambivalence: does that method share the same logic as natural science, or does it represent a different form of inquiry characteristic of history and the humanities? That issue continues to underly discussions of qualitative method, and provokes fundamental questions about the procedures employed by qualitative researchers.

The Dilemma of Qualitative Method is a stimulating guide to this key area of social research methodology. The author sketches the historical context of the dispute and provides a detailed account and systematic analysis of Blumers methodological writings, including his doctoral thesis. The strategies for qualitative research advocated by Blumer and others within the Chicago tradition are reviewed and assessed. The authors conclusions about the current status of qualitative method are likely to be controversial.

THE DILEMMA OF
QUALITATIVE METHOD

Herbert Blumer and the Chicago
Tradition

MARTYN HAMMERSLEY

First published in 1989

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

a division of Roudedge, Chapman and Hall, Inc.

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

1989 Martyn Hammersley

Typeset by LaserScript, Mitcham, Surrey

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Hammersley, Martyn

The dilemma of qualitative method: Herbert

Blumer and the Chicago tradition.

1. Social sciences. Blumer, Herbert

I. Tide

300.924

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Hammersley, Martyn.

The dilemma of qualitative method: Herbert Blumer and the
Chicago tradition / Martyn Hammersley.

p. cm.

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

1. SociologyMethodology. 2. Blumer, Herbert, 1900-1987.

3. Chicago school of sociology. I. Tide.

HM24.H355 1989

301.018dcl9

88-25962

CIP
ISBN 0-415-01772-6

This book is dedicated to the memory of Herbert Blumer who, had he lived to read it, would have written a robust reply.

I also offer this book to Joan, Rachel, and Paul, in recompense for time that might have been spent otherwise.

At least knowing where the difficulty lies, we should be prevented from engaging in the practice of the ostrich or in expecting some form of magic to make the problem vanish.

Herbert Blumer

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