- 584 pages
- English
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About This Book
Balancing theoretical foundations with practical strategies, this book helps you develop an approach to your qualitative analysis that is both systematic and insightful. It demonstrates the importance of tying analysis into every aspect of research, from design, through data collection and management, to writing up, and provides step-by-step guidance on how to embed analysis from start to finish. Grounded in the reality of doing research, this second edition: â˘Presents visual and text-based methods for analysis, using manual and digital tools
â˘Inspires confidence as you code, connect and interrogate observational, text and visual data
â˘Showcases best practice and helps you navigate real-life dilemmas using case studies of research from across the social sciences. Together with rich online resources including videos, datasets and journal articles, this is an important new edition for all students undertaking qualitative research, with a focus on analysis and design.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Brief contents
- Detailed contents
- Illustration List
- Table List
- About the author
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Online Resources
- Part I Laying the Foundations for Analysis
- 1 Thinking and working qualitatively
- 2 Foundations for thinking and working qualitatively
- 3 Design that supports analysis
- 4 Managing and preparing data for analysis
- Part II Fundamentals of Analysis: Working with Data
- 5 Read, reflect, and connect: initial explorations of data
- 6 Coding as an analytic strategy
- 7 Tools to manage the coding process
- 8 Codes, themes, and descriptive writing
- 9 Working with cases to build understanding and explanation
- 10 Learning from stories, accounts, and conversations
- 11 Analysing visual data
- 12 Comparative analyses using coded data
- Part III Reconstruction, Connection, and Coherence
- 13 Exploring, seeing, and investigating connections in data
- 14 Elaborating concepts, developing theory
- 15 Realising coherent understanding
- 16 Defending and extending: issues of quality and significance
- Appendix: Data samples
- References
- Index