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Going out on a Limb

Postmodernism and Multiple Method Research

University of Surrey, UK, n.fielding{at}surrey.ac.uk

The article argues that `moderate postmodernism' can in certain respects be reconciled with a methodological practice, triangulation, that is based on mainstream methodological foundations. A connection is made between moderate postmodernism and triangulation's orientation to multiple methods. The evolution of social science approaches to triangulation towards a position less concerned with convergent validation and more concerned with using multiple methods to create greater analytic density and conceptual richness facilitates a conciliation between postmodernism and triangulation. The argument is illustrated by contemporary empirical examples.

Key Words: multiple method research • postmodernism and methodology • triangulation

Current Sociology, Vol. 57, No. 3, 427-447 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0011392108101591


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