Sociology, Department of
Date of this Version
4-2019
Citation
Published in The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment, edited by Natalie Boero and Katherine Mason. Oxford Handbooks Online (www.oxfordhandbooks.com).
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190842475.013.5
Abstract
This chapter outlines the foundations of mixed methods research and discusses several examples of mixed methods research in the sociology of the body and embodiment. It begins with a brief history of mixed methods and conceptualizations of this term. To illustrate mixed methods in practice, including its benefits, drawbacks, and relevance to intersectionality research, the authors discuss the first author’s research on body weight (Kwan 2007, 2009a, 2009b, 2010; Kwan and Graves 2013), as well as a study about young women’s contraceptive use (England et al. 2016) and a study about nude embodiment (Weinberg and Williams 2010). The chapter concludes by discussing the future of mixed methods for sociologists of the body and embodiment, maintaining that mixed methods would serve well scholars who desire to understand embodiment-related trends in a population, as well as experiences of lived embodiment.
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