Chapter 10: Qualitative Data Analysis

Question 1

Qualitative data analysis

Answer 1

Techniques used to search and code textual, aural, and pictorial data and to explore relationships among the resulting categories

Question 2

Emic focus

Answer 2

Representing a setting with the participants’ terms

Question 3

Etic focus

Answer 3

Representing a setting with the researcher’s terms

Question 4

Progressive focusing

Answer 4

The process by which a qualitative analyst interacts with the data and gradually refines his or her focus

Question 5

Five steps of qualitative data analyst approaches

Answer 5

1. Documentation of data
2. Conceptulaization and coding
3. Examining relationships to show how one concept may influence another
4. Authenticating conclusions by evaluating alternative explanations, disconfirming evidence, searchers for negative cases
5. Reflexivity

Question 6

Matrix

Answer 6

A chart used to condense qualitatie data into simple categories and provide a multidimensional summary that will facilitate subsequent, more intensive analysis

Question 7

Tacit knowledge

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Narrative analysis

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Grounded theory

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis

Answer 10

Analysis of textual, aural, or pictorial data using a special computer program that facilitates searching and coding text