MÉTHODE QUANTITATIVE VS MÉTHODE QUALITATIVE ? : CONTRIBUTION A UN DÉBAT CONTRIBUTION A UN DÉBAT

Abstract

Our paper focuses on the analysis of the relationship between quantitative and qualitative method. It questions the theoretical foundations of each method in order to achieve the epistemological bases of each. In this perspective, our paper presents an essay of elucidation of the bases on which are erected the presuppositions of a
process of knowledge production around a defined object in the social  sciences. Because the two methods represent two different approaches