ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the many types of "qual supplements" that regards as indicators of mixed methods, including specialized mapping; "informal paper and pencil testing"; shifting ethnographic focus to a different subgroup or different structural level; and interviewing styles developed specifically for a previously unexamined cultural sector. In the 1950s, Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa was widely cited as a rebuttal to the prevalent belief, in North American circles, that adolescence is a period of great emotional turmoil and confusion for most individuals because of inherent factors in persons going through physical and sexual maturation—it is "human nature". A study by John J. Gumperz, entitled "Dialect Differences and Social Stratification in a North Indian Village", shows how mixed methods data gathering is used to link language patterns with specific social groups. That description of data-gathering methods can be considered a two-part mixture: linguistic methods and general ethnographic data gathering.
