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The wide range of approaches to data analysis in qualitative research can seem daunting even for experienced researchers. This handbook is the first to provide a state-of-the art overview of the whole field of QDA; from general analytic strategies used in qualitative research, to approaches specific to particular types of qualitative data, including talk, text, sounds, images and virtual data. The handbook includes chapters on traditional analytic strategies such as grounded theory, content analysis, hermeneutics, phenomenology and narrative analysis, as well as coverage of newer trends like mixed methods, reanalysis and meta-analysis. Practical aspects such as sampling, transcription, working collaboratively, writing and implementation are given close attention, as are theory and theorization, reflexivity, and ethics. Written by a team of experts in qualitative research from around the world, this handbook is an essential compendium for all qualitative researchers and students across the social sciences.
Analytic Inspiration in Ethnographic Fieldwork
Analytic Inspiration in Ethnographic Fieldwork
Debate over the place of methods and analysis in ethnographic fieldwork comes and goes. Some, such as Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss (1967), have advocated rigorous and systematic coding, the method entailed becoming the analytic process (see Thornberg and Charmaz, Chapter 11, this volume). Earlier, Herbert Blumer (1969), Everett Hughes (1971), and others championed sensitizing concept formation, which amounted to working analytically in close proximity to empirical material and not straying into grand theorizing. More recently, some have questioned the ultimate empirical grounding of ethnographic methods and analysis, the extreme view being that these are literary projects (e.g., see Clifford and Marcus, 1986).
This chapter describes a perspective that places conceptual imagination ...
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