Survey and clinical methods were designed as mutually feeding research loops

Evidence

The mass-production techniques give us information concerning the frequency of certain relationships (between anti-Semitism and group-membership or personality pattern or whatever) in society at large, as well as subjects for additional clinical study; while the clinical, case-study methods serve to extend and deepen our understanding of the forces making for and against anti-Semitism in the individual, as well as to supply us with hypotheses for new questions to be used in questionnaires and other mass-production methods. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1525

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Berkeley group’s mixed-methods research design: mass surveys generating clinical subjects, clinical cases generating new survey questions.
• CANDY: A clean articulation of why surveys and case studies belong together: each feeds the other in a continuous loop.
• XREF: connects to: Wellness insights can be redirected toward structural medicine rather than individual fixes — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 589; Two research fields can mutually advance through mapped points of contact. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1432; Editing a field survey is an intervention into how that field is studied — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 90

Broader Connections

• Two research fields can mutually advance through mapped points of contact. #expands (0.85) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1432
• Wellness insights can be redirected toward structural medicine rather than individual fixes #complicates (0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 589
• Editing a field survey is an intervention into how that field is studied #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 90