Discuss the views of methodological purists, methodological pluralists, and methodological pragmatists in regards to mixed methods.

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Methodological purists believe that only qualitative or quantitative methods provide adequate tools for investigating the educational world. Methodological pragmatists believe that different methods should be used to answer the questions to which they are most suited (Onwuegbuzie & Combs, 2010). Methodological pluralists believe the social world is composed of multiple realities that cannot be understood without multiple methods: a subjective reality reflected in individual experiences; an intersubjective reality reflected in social structures, languages, and social institutions; and an objective reality comprising material things and physical processes.

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