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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

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