CRIM 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Workplace Bullying
4 Apr 2018
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System for organizing what is seen, heard and read to make sense of it. Process of data reduction (from description) to analytical abstraction (bigger picture) Using data to describe, create explanations, pose rationales, develop theories & link story to other stories. Achieved by categorizing, synthesizing, interpretation searching for patterns and themes. Coding process: systematic and meticulous, flexible. Why: credibility and authenticity, allow you to speak to findings with confidence. Goals: reveal, uncover and contextualize data, reduced data by paraphrasing, summarizing and identifying patterns and themes. Identifying key factors in the study and the relationships between them. Interpretation: move beyond factual data and cautious analysis (the above, probe what can be made from/of data. Chenail refers to meaningful units of data as line by line might be suitable unit on its own. Suggestion of creating an audit trail with a work doc using the feature show comments to track codes and interpretation.
