Qualitative_data_analysis
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Qualitative_data_analysis
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connections;<br />
description<br />
qualitative <strong>data</strong> management:<br />
use of computer for see under computers<br />
qualitative research:<br />
basic orientations 1–3;<br />
constraints and restrictions on 115–10,<br />
243;<br />
focus and objectives of 46, 52, 65, 67,<br />
68, 77;<br />
internal replication of 229–2, 258;<br />
joint 120, 230;<br />
report see account, producing;<br />
relationship of researcher with subject<br />
116;<br />
role of researcher in producing<br />
qualitative <strong>data</strong> 14–15;<br />
techniques and methods 4, 14–16, 38,<br />
273;<br />
types of xiv–1;<br />
see also social research<br />
quality 11;<br />
of <strong>data</strong> 75–5, 231–5, 263<br />
quantitative <strong>data</strong> distinguished from<br />
qualitative 3, 9–11, 12–14, 273<br />
quantitative measurement:<br />
conceptual basis of 18, 24–5<br />
quantitative methods and <strong>analysis</strong> compared<br />
with qualitative 3–4, 5, 14–15, 20, 22,<br />
23, 24–8, 43, 268, 273;<br />
computer and 64<br />
quasi-statistics, quasi-statistical approach 5,<br />
29;<br />
see also statistics<br />
questionnaire surveys 14, 15, 80<br />
random samples 28<br />
randomizing cases 127, 186, 235<br />
ratio scale 24<br />
reading 86–8, 105, 247, 272;<br />
checklist 87–6;<br />
free association 90;<br />
Hypersoft and 280;<br />
shifting focus and sequence 90–8;<br />
transposition and comparison 90, 199<br />
recategorizing <strong>data</strong> 147–51<br />
recoding <strong>data</strong> 208–208<br />
INDEX 293<br />
recontextualization of <strong>data</strong> see categories,<br />
splitting and splicing<br />
regularities see patterns in <strong>data</strong><br />
reliability 14, 229–2, 258–3, 268<br />
representativeness 268–3<br />
research see qualitative research;<br />
social research<br />
reviewing the literature 68–9<br />
Richards, L. 5, 49, 61<br />
Richards, T. 5, 49, 61<br />
Riley, J. 92<br />
Sabatier, P.A. 87<br />
Sayer, A. 3, 8, 11, 12, 40, 50, 52, 53, 54,<br />
86, 99, 160, 177, 188, 254<br />
scanners 57<br />
science, scientific theory 3, 7, 11, 12, 27, 31,<br />
35, 64, 228, 229<br />
scientific method 24<br />
Seidel, J. 63, 275<br />
Shimahara, N. 258, 268<br />
singularities, singularity 18–19, 28, 49, 230,<br />
263, 273;<br />
and linking <strong>data</strong> 174, 191;<br />
and matrices 202, 205<br />
social criticism, evaluation 54, 244, 245,<br />
253<br />
social research:<br />
ethical code 229;<br />
measurement in 18–29<br />
social science 3, 12, 54–4<br />
social structure 51<br />
social theory see theory<br />
Sperber, D. 33<br />
spontaneity 56, 94–1, 254–8<br />
statistics, statistical <strong>analysis</strong> 3, 4, 28–8, 49,<br />
186, 239, 263<br />
story-telling techniques used to enhance<br />
account 245–47<br />
Strauss, A. 5, 7, 39, 60, 87, 90, 92, 109<br />
structured interviews see interview(s)<br />
subcategorization 110, 115, 134, 139–9,<br />
157;<br />
and diagrams 208–1, 210, 214, 215,<br />
216;<br />
and linking 198;<br />
mechanical aspects 145, 147