GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Final Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Content Analysis
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A method for identifying, analysing and reporting similar ideas, patterns (themes) that emerge from across the data. Organises and describes your data in rich detail. A simple way of unearthing and organising themes in qualitative data. Aim is you learn about participants" versions of their social worlds. Thematizing meanings" one of a few shared generic skills across qualitative analysis (holloway + todres, 2003, p. 347) One of a range of possible methods with which to analyse your qualitative data a tool to use across different methods (boyatzis, 1998) Provides core skills useful for conducting many other forms of qualitative analysis (e. g. , A theme captures something important about the data in relation to the research question. Represent some level of patterned response or meaning within the data. Conversation topics, vocabulary, recurring activities, meanings, feelings, or folk sayings and proverbs that occur data (taylor + bogdan, 1989, p. 131)
