Chapter 10: Qualitative Data Analysis Flashcards
Qualitative data analysis
Techniques used to search and code textual, aural, and pictorial data and to explore relationships among the resulting categories
Emic focus
Representing a setting with the participants’ terms
Etic focus
Representing a setting with the researcher’s terms
Progressive focusing
The process by which a qualitative analyst interacts with the data and gradually refines his or her focus
Five steps of qualitative data analyst approaches
- Documentation of data
- Conceptulaization and coding
- Examining relationships to show how one concept may influence another
- Authenticating conclusions by evaluating alternative explanations, disconfirming evidence, searchers for negative cases
- Reflexivity
Matrix
A chart used to condense qualitatie data into simple categories and provide a multidimensional summary that will facilitate subsequent, more intensive analysis
Tacit knowledge
In field research, a credible sense of understanding of social processes that reflects the researcher’s awareness of participants’ actions, as well as their words, and of what they fail to state, feel deeply, and take for granted
Narrative analysis
A form of qualitative analysis in which the analyst focuses on how respondents impose order on the flow of experience in tehir lives and so make sense of events and actions in which they have participated
Grounded theory
Systematic theory developed inductively, based on observations that are summarized into conceptual categories, reevaluated in the research setting, and gradually refined and linked to other conceptual categories
Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis
Analysis of textual, aural, or pictorial data using a special computer program that facilitates searching and coding text