SOCI 3P02 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Open-Source Software, Underweight, Anselm Strauss
22 Jan 2018
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Qualitative data analysis (qda: a creative, interpretive process, seeing meaningful connections between categories. Involves making meaning from the textual data (transcripts or field notes) If you follow these it will help you develop a good analysis: an on-going, iterative process, each step builds on the other, each step build new insight, creative, not mechanical. Strategies for qualitative data analysis: content analysis, grounded theory the dominate theory, narrative analysis. Content analysis: the most systematic form of analysis, a technique for making inferences by systematically coding data, this is more quantitative mode of qualitative research. Applying content analysis: what aspects of students" housing interest you, types of housing arrangements. Grounded theory: the most widely used framework for qualitative analysis, anselm strauss and braney glaser (1967, book: the discovery of grounded theory: strategies for qualitative. Research: analytical method by which theory is derived from data. Iterative process: data collection and analysis proceed together: can think of this like a spiral.
