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| List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Author | |
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| Mental Models and Mixed Methods Inquiry | |
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| Group Discussion | |
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| Making Sense of These Conversations: The Concept of Mental Models | |
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| Mixed Methods Social Inquiry as Mixing Mental Models | |
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| An Invitation to Read This Book | |
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| Who Is Invited | |
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| Adopting a Mixed Methods Way of Thinking | |
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| A Mixed Methods Way of Thinking | |
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| Looking Ahead | |
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| The Historical Roots of the Contemporary Mixed Methods Conversation | |
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| The Philosophical Seeds of Discontent | |
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| The Seeds of Discontent in Practice | |
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| The Great Qualitative-Quantitative Debate | |
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| Rapprochement and the Emergence of the Idea of Mixing Methods | |
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| But Troubled Waters Remained | |
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| Contested Spaces: Paradigms and Practice in Mixed Methods Social Inquiry | |
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| On the Nature of Philosophical Paradigms for Social Inquiry, and Mental Models, Too | |
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| Interlude | |
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| On the Relationships of Mental Models (and Paradigms) to Practice | |
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| A Reflective Stance | |
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| My Mixed Methods Story | |
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| Stances on Mixing Paradigms and Mental Models While Mixing Methods | |
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| Various Stances on Mixing Paradigms While Mixing Methods-An Overview | |
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| Reprise | |
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| An Illustration of a Mixed Methods Way of Thinking | |
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| Study Purpose | |
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| Mixed Methods Research Design | |
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| Mixed Methods Analysis | |
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| Sample Results | |
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| Mixing Methods on Purpose | |
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| Mixing Methods for Better Understanding | |
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| Purposes for Mixing Methods | |
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| An Illustration of Mixed Methods Purposes in Practice | |
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| Practical Procedures for Thinking About and Identifying Mixed Methods Purposes | |
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| Mixed Methods Purposes and Stances on Mixing Paradigms While Mixing Methods | |
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| Designing Mixed Methods Studies | |
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| Mixing Methods at Different Stages of Social Inquiry: Mixed Methods and Mixed Model Designs | |
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| Mixing Methods Within a Single Study or Across Studies in a Program of Research | |
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| Dimensions of Difference in Mixed Methods Design | |
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| Component and Integrated Mixed Methods Designs | |
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| Other Formulations of Mixed Methods Design | |
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| Illustrations of Mixed Methods Designs in Practice | |
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| Connecting Mixed Methods Designs to Mixed Methods Paradigm Stances and Mixed Methods Purposes | |
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| Mixed Methods Purposes and Designs in Action | |
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| Overall Mixed Methods Purposes and Design | |
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| Mixed Methods Contributions to the MTO Study | |
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| Mixed Methods Data Analysis | |
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| Thinking About Mixed Methods Data Analysis | |
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| Mixed Methods Data Analysis Strategies | |
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| Mixed Methods Data Analysis Exemplars | |
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| Reprise | |
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| Judging the Quality of Mixed Methods Social Inquiry | |
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| Thinking About Inquiry Criteria in Mixed Methods Social Inquiry | |
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| Inference Quality in Mixed Methods Social Inquiry | |
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| Legitimation as Quality in Mixed Methods Social Inquiry | |
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| Warranting the Quality of Inferences in Mixed Methods Inquiry | |
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| An Illustration | |
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| Writing Up and Reporting Mixed Methods Social Inquiry | |
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| Writing Up Mixed Methods Social Inquiry | |
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| Representation in Social Inquiry | |
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| Writing Up Mixed Methods Social Inquiry: Two Preliminary Principles | |
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| More Creativity in Mixed Methods Data Analysis and Display | |
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| The Metaphor | |
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| The Example | |
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| An Application of the Archipelago Metaphor | |
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| The Potential and Promise of Mixed Methods Social Inquiry | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |