Abstract
Quantitative and qualitative research are based on different epistemological foundations which refers to different vision of social reality. The attachment to research rules rooted in a given epistemology is a methodological virtue but makes the research practice more difficult. Perhaps this is the main cause of general calling for coexistence and complementarity of quantitative and qualitative methodologies and research approaches, as well as of the thesis that they are applying to different aspects to social reality. In particular the rapid development and increasing complexity of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies stimulate such complementarity, regardless of epistemological perspectives. In the article some dilemmas related to the duality of these perspectives and the differentiation of methodologies, methods and techniques of sociological research.
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