Analyzing Qualitative Data

Analyzing Qualitative Data Systematic Approaches


SAGE Publications, Inc
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Contents
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
PART I. THE BASICS
 
Chapter 1. Introduction to Text: Qualitative Data Analysis
 
Chapter 2. Collecting Data
 
Chapter 3. Finding Themes
 
Chapter 4. Codebooks and Coding
 
Chapter 5. Introduction to Data Analysis
 
Chapter 6. Conceptual Models
 
PART II. THE SPECIFICS
 
Chapter 7. First Steps in Analysis: Comparing Attributes of Variables
 
Chapter 8. Cultural Domain Analysis: Free Lists, Judged Similarities, and Taxonomies
 
Chapter 9. KWIC Analysis, Word Counts, and Semantic Network Analysis
 
Chapter 10. Discourse Analysis: Conversation and Performance
 
Chapter 11. Narrative Analysis
 
Chapter 12. Grounded Theory
 
Chapter 13. Content Analysis
 
Chapter 14. Schema Analysis
 
Chapter 15. Analytic Induction and Qualitative Comparative Analysis
 
Chapter 16. Ethnographic Decision Models
 
Chapter 17. Sampling
 
Appendix: Resources for Analyzing Qualitative Data
 
References
 
Author Index
 
Subject Index
 
About the Authors
Independent Customer Reviews

"This book is well suited for a novice in qualitative research, as the chapters are written in a clear and simple style. Those who are more experienced in qualitative research could include this in their collection because it is comprehensive and replete with examples from studies that illustrate the content."

Shelley Victor
Nova Southeastern University
The Qualitative Report

A how-to guide for the qualitative researcher and student. Bernard and Ryan have produced a text of surgical precision which cuts through the rhetoric about qualitative research and arms researchers with the knowledge and tools to deliver refined analysis and troubleshoot classic issues. An essential text for all qualitative researchers and their teachers.

Mr Paul Matthews
School of Hospitality, Tourism & Events, University College Birmingham
June 22, 2016

This book provides an essential resource for any scholar interested in qualitative research. It gives a solid introduction with practical tips and examples of how to analyse qualitative data in a systematic and rigorous way. It is very well written and clearly structured, making it a valuable resource both for instructors and students.

Dr Oliver Schwarz
Faculty of Social Sciences, University Duisburg-Essen
February 12, 2016

This text is especially strong in offering concrete and practical examples of how to conceptualize, gather, and analyze qualitative data. For students who are new to this approach to research, this text offers a fresh, interesting, and engaging approach.

Dr Jay Memmott
Social Work, University of South Dakota Health Science Center
June 24, 2015

This is a specialized book. It covers all aspects of qualitative data analysis in details. It is an excellent book for a course in qualitative data analysis. But my course is an introductory course in qualitative methods. For this purpose the book is too detailed and specialized. I was hoping to be able to use chapters of it, but found out that it was not easy to include separate chapters.

Dr Babak Farshchian
Dept of Computer and Info Science, Norwegian University of Science & Tech
September 13, 2015
Contributors: 

H. Russell Bernard

H. Russell Bernard is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus at the University of Florida. He served as editor of the American Anthropologist and Human Organization. He is co-founder (with Pertti Pelto and Stephen Borgatti) of the Cultural Anthropology Methods journal (1989), which became Field Methods in 1999. The five editions of his methods text Research Methods in Anthropology (AltaMira 2006) and his general research methods text Social Research Methods (Sage 2012), have been used by tens of thousands of students. Bernard co-founded (with Pelto) and co-directed (with Pelto and Borgatti) the National Science Foundation's Institute on Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology and has done fieldwork in Greece, Mexico, and the U.S.A. His publications include (with Jesús Salinas Pedraza) Native Ethnography: A Otomí Indian Describes His Culture (Sage, 1989). Bernard is known as well for his work, with Peter Killworth, Eugene Johnsen, Christopher McCarty, and Gene A. Shelley, on network analysis, including work on the network scale-up method for estimating hard-to-count populations. In 2010, Bernard was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Gery W. Ryan

Gery Ryan (Ph. D., University of Florida, 1995) is a Senior Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at the Pardee RAND Graduate School in Policy Analysis. Ryan’s research focuses on social factors in mental and physical health, and includes studies on HIV/AIDS, depression, serious mental illness, childhood diarrhea and acute respiratory illnesses, obesity and complementary and alternative medicine. He has worked extensively in Latin America and Africa on health-related issues and helped redesign and implement a large-scale education reform in Qatar. As a methodologist, Ryan has published widely on the application of systematic methods to qualitative research. Over the last 20 years, he has run workshops sponsored by NSF, NIH, CDC and WHO on qualitative research methods and has taught these methods at UCLA, Pardee RAND, and the University of Missouri.