Week 11 - Chapter 8

Week 11 - Chapter 8

1. 3 ways to approaches to qualitative analysis

   • The number of times a particular word or concept
     • fatigue
   • A thematic analysis would explore data further than the first example
   • In a theoretic analysis such as grounded theory, the researcher would analyze the data further to generate an emerging theory

2. Stages of qualitative analysis

   • Familiarisation with data
   • transcription of recored material
   • organizing and indexing of data for easy retrieval and identification
   • anonymisation of sensitive data
   • coding
   • identification of themes
   • re-coding
   • development of provisional categories
   • exploration of relationships between categories
   • refinement of themes and categories
   • development of theory and incorporation of pre-existing knowledge

3. Thematic Analysis

   • code
     • a name given to data that have been separated into components parts
   • theory-driven, where the researcher seeks to explore the application of a theory to the data collected
   • the researcher seeks to explore and compare themes generated through previous research
   • explore the data without any consciously expressed predetermined interest

4. Grounded Theory

   • a research design where data analysis's viewed as part of a wider approach beginning with the research question
   • analysis process
     • opening coding
     • Describing of emergent concepts
     • conceptual coding
     • refinement of conceptual coding schemes
     • clustering of concepts to form analytical categories
     • Core categories lead to identification of core theory
     • searching core categories

5. Constant comparison

   • the process whereby the data and the concepts created from analysis are compared to ensure that they are good fit and re-evaluated if they are not,

6. Theoretical saturation

   • the point at which no further data collection or codon is required because no new instances are to be found in the data

7. Phenomenolgy

   • draw on variety of philosophical

8. Ethnography

   • focuses of the study of cultures and subcultures
     • aim to focus emic view of the member of the culture

9. Building trustworthiness in qualitative data analysis

   • audit trail
     • A decision trail that documents each step of the data analysis process
       • a process of observing and recording events or scrutinizing (examine) pre-existing records for subsequent comparison to standards