Qualitative Data Analysis: A User Friendly Guide for Social Scientists

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Routledge, 2003 M09 2 - 300 páginas
First Published in 2004. Learning how to analyze qualitative data by computer can be fun. That is one assumption underpinning this introduction to qualitative analysis, which takes account of how computing techniques have enhanced and transformed the field. The author provides a practical discussion of the main procedures for analyzing qualitative data by computer, with most of its examples taken from humour or everyday life. He examines ways in which computers can contribute to greater rigour and creativity, as well as greater efficiency in analysis. He discusses some of the pitfalls and paradoxes as well as the practicalities of computer-based qualitative analysis. The perspective of "Qualitative Data Analysis" is pragmatic rather than prescriptive, introducing different possibilities without advocating one particular approach. The result is a largely discipline-neutral text, which is suitable for arts and social science students and first-time qualitative analysts.
 

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Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 What is qualitative data?
10
Chapter 3 What is qualitative analysis?
31
Chapter 4 Introducing computers
57
Chapter 5 Finding a focus
65
Chapter 6 Managing data
77
Chapter 7 Reading and annotating
87
Chapter 8 Creating categories
100
Chapter 12 Making connections
177
Chapter 13 Of maps and matrices
201
Chapter 14 Corroborating evidence
227
Chapter 15 Producing an account
245
Chapter 16 Conclusion
272
Appendix 1 If the Impressionists had been Dentists Woody Allen 1978
277
Appendix 2 Software
281
References
285

Chapter 9 Assigning categories
120
Chapter 10 Splitting and splicing
137
Chapter 11 Linking data
161

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