SSCI 2900U Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory
11 Aug 2017
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Both involve inferring from the empirical details of social life. Do not begin analysis until all data collected. Deductive (theory testing: see if the stats found reject the hypothesis) Begin analysis early in project, while still collecting data. Inductive (theory creation: no actual hypothesis, develops as you go on. Codes in qualitative analysis, refers typically to a word or short phrase that symbolically assigns a summative, salient, essence-capturing attribute for a portion of language-based or visual data. Qualitative researchers organize data into codes and then categories the codes on the basis of themes, concepts, or similar features: looking into relationships between ideas that helps develop the theory more and help in analysis. The codes are given meaningful names that gives an indication of the idea or concept that underpins the theme or category. Any parts of the data that relate to a code topic are coded with the appropriate label.
