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Qualitative data analysis : an introduction / Carol Grbich.

By: Grbich, Carol [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : SAGE Publications Ltd., 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Second edition.Description: vii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781446202968 (hardback); 1446202968 (hardback); 9781446202975 (paperback) .Subject(s): Social sciences -- Research | Qualitative researchDDC classification: 001.4
Contents:
Part 1: General approaches to collecting and analysing qualitative data. Design methodologies, data management and analytical approaches ; Incorporating data from multiple sources: mixing methods -- Part 2 :Traditional analytical approaches. Classical ethnography ; Critical ethnographic approaches ; Feminist approaches ; Grounded theory ; Phenomenology -- Part 3: Newer qualitative approaches. Postmodern influences on society and qualitative research ; Autoethnography ; Poetic inquiry ; Ethnodrama and performative art ; Cyberethnography and e-research -- Part 4: Analytic approaches for existing documentation. Structuralism and poststructuralism ; Semiotic structural and poststructural analysis (Deconstruction) ; Content analysis of texts ; Content analysis of visual documents ; Narrative analysis ; Conversation analysis ; Discourse analysis -- Part 5: Data management using qualitative computer programs. Coding ; An overview of qualitative computer programs -- Part 6: Interpreting and presenting qualitative data. Theorising from data ; Writing up and innovative data display.
Summary: "In this fully updated and expanded Second Edition, Carol Grbich provides a guide through current issues in the analysis of qualitative data. Packed with detailed examples, a glossary, further reading lists and a section on writing up, this easy to read text is exactly what you need to get you started in qualitative research."--Publisher's website.
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 001.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available CIT Module AUTO 8010- Core reading. 00218609
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In this fully updated and expanded Second Edition, Carol Grbich provides a guide through current issues in the analysis of qualitative data. Packed with detailed examples, a glossary, further reading lists and a section on writing up, this easy to read text is exactly what you need to get you started in qualitative research.

The new edition covers analytical approaches including:

Grounded theory Classical, existential and hermeneutic phenomenology Feminist research including memory work Classical, auto- and cyberethnography as well as ethnodrama Content, narrative, conversation and discourse analysis Visual interpretation Semiotic, structural and poststructural analyses

A one-stop-shop for students new to qualitative data analysis!

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: General approaches to collecting and analysing qualitative data. Design methodologies, data management and analytical approaches ; Incorporating data from multiple sources: mixing methods -- Part 2 :Traditional analytical approaches. Classical ethnography ; Critical ethnographic approaches ; Feminist approaches ; Grounded theory ; Phenomenology -- Part 3: Newer qualitative approaches. Postmodern influences on society and qualitative research ; Autoethnography ; Poetic inquiry ; Ethnodrama and performative art ; Cyberethnography and e-research -- Part 4: Analytic approaches for existing documentation. Structuralism and poststructuralism ; Semiotic structural and poststructural analysis (Deconstruction) ; Content analysis of texts ; Content analysis of visual documents ; Narrative analysis ; Conversation analysis ; Discourse analysis -- Part 5: Data management using qualitative computer programs. Coding ; An overview of qualitative computer programs -- Part 6: Interpreting and presenting qualitative data. Theorising from data ; Writing up and innovative data display.

"In this fully updated and expanded Second Edition, Carol Grbich provides a guide through current issues in the analysis of qualitative data. Packed with detailed examples, a glossary, further reading lists and a section on writing up, this easy to read text is exactly what you need to get you started in qualitative research."--Publisher's website.

CIT Module AUTO 8010- Core reading.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Carol Grbich is in the Faculty of Health Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia.