Qualitative Data Flashcards
Explanations of qualititive data
Process of elimaiton
- Researchers elimaitine some explanations while increasing the plausibility of others based on consistency with patterns in the data
Analysis process
Open coding
Axial Coding
Selective Coding
Memos
Explaantion
Open coding
Preformed during the first pass through
- mechanical data reduction - reducing volumes of data into smaller manaagbale units
Analytical data categorization - how the researcher imposes order on the data
Axial Coding
Second coding. The researcher developed links between codes and discovers key analytical cetegoies
Puts like codes together into clusters
Selective coding
A final pass through the qualititive data in which a researcher examines previous codes to idenitgy a core theme around which the reaminag codes will fit
Analytical memos
Special notes that aid in researchers in interperting their data
Forges link between the concrete data or raw evidence and more abstract, theoretical thinking
Analytical strategies for qualititive data
Data analysis - searching for patterns in data recurrent behaviours, objects, or a body or knowledge
Analogies
Statements the two objects processess or events are similar to each other
4 strategies researches use to analyze qualitative data
- Narrittve
- Ideal types
- Successive approximation
- Illistrative model
Narrative
Author dissapears from analysis
Ideal types
Models or mental abstractions of soical relatons or processes
Pure standards against which the data can be compared
Successive approxiamtion
Involves repeated iterations or cycling through stpes, moving toward a final analysis
Illustrative model
A researcher applies theory to a concrete historical situation or social setting, or organizes data on the basis of prior theory
Empty boxes - a name for conceptual categories in an explanation that a researcher uses as part of the illustrisve method of qualitative data analysis
Operation
How the concept would be measured
Conceptualization
What the term means
