WES Editorial on Quantitative research FINAL.pdf (160.98 kB)
Clear, rigorous and relevant: publishing quantitative research articles in work, employment and society
journal contribution
posted on 2015-03-11, 17:02 authored by Andy Charlwood, Chris Forde, Irena Grugulis, Kate Hardy, Ian Kirkpatrick, Robert MacKenzie, Mark StuartAccording to the recent benchmarking review of the discipline, UK sociological research is predominantly based around qualitative research methods (BSA/HaPS/ESRC 2010: 23). Further, evidence suggests that the overwhelming majority of empirical articles published in mainstream UK sociology journals are qualitative in their focus (Payne 2007: 903). In this context, WES has always been something of an outlier within UK sociology in that a relatively high proportion of articles published in the journal employ quantitative analysis (Rainbird and Rose 2007: 212; Stuart et al 2013:382). However, one consequence of the relative neglect of quantitative methods within UK sociology is that there is a lack of shared understanding about what constitutes appropriate ways of framing and presenting quantitative sociological analysis. This lack of shared understanding can then create problems for researchers seeking to publish articles based on quantitative research, because in contrast to social science disciplines where quantitative analysis is the norm, there is no clear, well established template or set of expectations for quantitative sociological research articles.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETYVolume
28Issue
2Pages
155 - 167 (13)Citation
CHARLWOOD, A. ... et al, 2014. Clear, rigorous and relevant: publishing quantitative research articles in work, employment and society. Work Employment and Society, 28 (2), pp. 155 - 167.Publisher
Sage Publications / © The AuthorsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2014Notes
This article was published in the journal, Work, Employment and Society [Sage Publications / © The Authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017014526448ISSN
0950-0170Publisher version
Language
- en