摘要：The paper gives the author's reflections of the interactions of the qualitative and quantitative approaches, methods and researches, which is the topic that has been a subject-matter in sociology and socio-empirical researches in the past three decades. That is to say, it was only since the 1970s that this issue has been more thoroughly discussed. Regarding the evident tendency of linking methodological with epistemological standpoints or approaches to empirical sociology, this debate should be considered something more than the incidental methodological escapes in something temporary or momentaneously modern. Because of the various difficulties, especially when are talking about empirical researches of Croatian islands as traditional rural areas, the author considers the perspectives of their own profitable development. The author expresses two probable forms of the integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches, methods and techniques: the first, like a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches, methods and techniques, and the second, like a comparison of qualitative and quantitative ones. Both of those possibilities are explicated in more detail in consideration of the perspectives of the empirical researches of Croatian islands. Also, the features of distinct research methods are ilustrated, both qualitative and quantitative type, but which would be relevant to use in those empirical researches. Unfortunately, there are some specific obstructions (of subjective and objective nature) to the integration, which the author is in favour of. Consequently, the researching situations in which it would be relevant and productive to try and influence the minimalization, or at best, the elimination of stereotypes, ignorance, unskillness and avoidance of a team work and the similar troubles are tried to be expound.
关键词：empirical researches of the islands; integration of the methodological aspects; qualitative; quantitative; pluralism of methods and approaches
