CRIM 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Attractive Nuisance Doctrine, Internal Validity, Qualitative Research
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Build confidence in ability to summarize and present data. Test theory by searching for theory"s applicability to data. Takes a long time, depending on sample size. Research can be inductive or deductive or both. Crim 321 chapter 11: analysis and interpretation of qualitative data. Steps in analyzing and interpreting qualitative data: data preparation. Present picture of participants documents you have studied. Similar to latent coding: familiarization, data exploration, specification and reduction of data their identity as a whole. Assigning meaning to text: descriptive codes, categorical codes, analytical codes. Participant is relating to you through these codes. Ends with theory that is generated from (or grounded in) the data. Coding procedure is open ended and holistic. Assigning a label/tag to a participant"s words. Serves as a way to organize data. Begin to group descriptive codes into a general category of meaning. Begin to see specific actions/feelings that reveal what it is like for them to negotiate.