BACH4056 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Qualitative Property, Data Analysis, Grounded Theory

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Behavioural and Community Health Science
• Course: BACH4056
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Qualitative analysis (1: interpretation of data: learning by doing, three basic steps. Qualitative analysis (2: features of analysis: drawing conclusions based on evidence, patterns and similarities, method or process, begins throughout data collection, coding and concept formation to derive ideas, themes, concepts, and generalise. Corbin open coding is the process of breaking down, examining, comparing, conceptualising and categorising data - this process of coding yields concepts which are later grouped and turned into categories. Focus on coding framework, and interaction between codes/issues. In selective coding according to strauss and corbin. Concepts- refers to labels given to discrete phenomena; concepts are referred to as the building blocks of theory. Category, categories- a category is a concept that has been elaborated so that it is regarded as representing real-world phenomena. Theory-according to struss and corbin a set of well-developed categories that are systematically related through statements of relationship to from a theoretical framework that explains some relevant social or other phenomenon.