ABSTRACT
The first interlude is a short chapter that develops a terminological framework regarding the key concepts of method, research strategy, and methodology and the relation between them. It aims to develop the reader’s awareness of overlaps in the literature, to help the reader “find their way” while reading other books with different applications of terminology while at the same time setting a clear framework for the terms as they are used in this book.
In short: methods are understood as well-considered, systematic, and goal-oriented procedures, concrete techniques, or activities that the researcher carries out. Methods are situated within a larger research strategy or research design, the overarching trajectory the researcher is developing in order to investigate their research questions. While methodology often overlaps with research strategy, particularly in qualitative research and the social sciences, this book aims for a broader understanding of the term methodology as the “discipline of methods”, including the underlying ideas of and world views of a research strategy and their philosophical and ethical bases.
