ABSTRACT
As the aim of this book is to encourage the “mixing” of qualitative and quantitative methods, we propose a monstrous new word-qualiquantology-to express this discomforting hybridity. In our view the hybridity ought to be discomforting, since any genuine hybrid represents a significant reformation in the bodies that are brought together in forming it. Hybridity pierces the boundaries of identity and opens up the difference of Otherness. By contrast, merely adding a qualitative dimension to a quantitative study or vice versa does not constitute hybridity and may be far from discomforting.
