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Preoccupations of Qualitative Research
- Seeking through the eyes of those studied
- Unexpected findings
- emphasis on context
- "thick description of what is going on"
- emphasize on social process
- flexible
- limited structure
Challenges in Qualitative Data Analysis
- large data base
- richness of data makes it difficult to find analytic paths
- no clear-cut rules
Qualitative Data Analysis
choice of method depends on type of problem and type of data
Overview Qualitative Data Analysis
Coding and Categorizing (Daten in Kategorien aufsplitten)
- Theoretical Coding
- Thematic Coding
Narrative and Hermaneutic Coding (trying to conduct sense of narrative, read btw. the lines)
- Narrative Analysis
- Objective Hermaneutics
Conversation Analysis
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Predominently Qualitative vs. Quantitative Analysis
Analysis of latent (verborgen) meaning
- Wörtlichkeit ist wichtig, meaning btw. the lines
Analysis of apparent meaning
- often large amounts of data, computer aided procedures
Critics Grounded Theory
- disputable whether theory-neutral observation is feasible
- often required to build studies on what is already known
- results may end in concepts, but not in theory
- unclear difference between concepts and categories
Grounded Theory Advantages
- Capturing Complexity
- Linking with Practise
- Putting life into well-established fields
- facilitating theoretical work in areas that have not been well researched
Tools of Grounded Theory
- Theoretical Sampling
- Coding
- Theoretical Saturation
- Constant Comparison
