The merged methods and the dialogic research approach

Abstract

The history of the merged methods started in 1949, more than seventy years ago (Gobo, Fielding, La Rocca, & van der Vaart, 2022). The introduction of the merged methods as the new group of methods in Social Science heralded a new era of research more than ten years ago. It is timely to ask why these methods should be of interest to the partisans of the dialogic approach and how the merged methods can be strengthened and developed by the existing tools from the arsenal of the dialogic approach.