Qualitative Data Analysis: An Introduction provides a thorough but very accessible reference guide to epistemological changes and their impact on the field of qualitative research, together with a practical guide to the wide range of approaches social science researchers and postgraduate students are currently using to design and analyze this form of data. This is a book that will rapidly be recognized as essential for social researchers attempting qualitative approaches. It provides a first-class, reliable guide to the basic issues in data analysis with detailed examples, a glossary, further reading lists, and summaries of key points provided throughout the text.
Qualitative Data Analysis: An Introduction provides a thorough but very accessible reference guide to epistemological changes and their impact on the field of qualitative research, together with a practical guide to the wide range of approaches social science researchers and postgraduate students are currently using to design and analyze this form of data. This is a book that will rapidly be recognized as essential for social researchers attempting qualitative approaches. It provides a first-class, reliable guide to the basic issues in data analysis with detailed examples, a glossary, further reading lists, and summaries of key points provided throughout the text.
PART ONE: THE STATE OF THE ART Epistemological Changes and their Impact on the Field General Approaches to Designing and Analyzing Data PART TWO: SPECIFIC ANALYTICAL APPROACHES Classical Ethnographic Approaches Newer Ethnographic Approaches Grounded Theory Phenomenology Feminist Research PART THREE: ANALYSIS OF DOCUMENTATION Content Analysis of Texts: Written/Visual Documentation Narrative Analysis Conversation Analysis Discourse Analysis Visual Interpretation Semiotic Structural and Poststructural Analyses PART FOUR: WRITING UP DATA Theorizing from Data Incorporating Data from Multiple Sources Writing Up and Data Display PART FIVE: QUALITATIVE COMPUTING PROGRAMS An Overview of Qualitative Computer Programs
[This book] is an accessible and invaluable resource for students and academics alike. It is of particular use to those engaging with a multi method design as in addition to providing an introduction to qualitative analysis the book also provides guidance on how to manage and present data from multiple sources Qualitative Research Very often, textbooks on research methods remain confined to issues of data collec-tion and data analysis without paying much attention to knowledge traditions andtheir claims to understanding. The present book marks a valuable departure from this general trend by taking on board both theoretical and practical issues that under-pin research...What is noteworthy about the book is its awareness ofthe contentious nature of various research traditions. It reiterates the valued methodological wisdom that ultimately it is one's research question that should dictate the methods one is going to employ in one's study. But exercising an option pre-supposes certain knowledge of the pros and cons of various research methodologies-something this book imparts to its readers in lucid abundance. Qualitative Data Analysis will prove to be an essential practical guide to students pursuing researchmethods in undergraduate classrooms Sociology
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