Sociology 2206A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory, Analytic Induction
14 Dec 2015
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By developing themes, new concepts or abstract theories rather than testing. Conceptualization & theory building (after data collection) Grounded in data (in comparison with quantitative r) A word or short phrase that symbolically assigns a summative, salient, essence-capturing and/or evocative attribute for a portion of language-based or visual data (saldana, 2012) Bring themes to the surface from deep inside the data. They reoriganize codes to see how they fit together: focused coding/selective coding refining codes. In qualitative data analysis, ideas and evidence are mutually interdependent. Qualitative researchers form new concepts or refine concepts that are grounded in: open coding (line-by-line coding) the initial rough stage. Read through your data to identify preliminary themes. Open coding brings themes to the surface from the inside data. A first coding of qualitative data in which researcher examines the data to condense them into preliminary analytical categories or codes for analyzing data.
