chap 4

• Analysis


  The meticulous study of research variables to learn about their constituent parts & how they are related to each other within the given research problem
• Research data


  Factual info. used to analyze research variables and produce relevant research results
• Common ways to analyze qualitative data


  • Thematic analysis
  • Narrative analysis
  • Content analysis
• Thematic analysis


  1. Read and annotate transcripts

  2. Identify themes

  3. Develop a coding scheme

  4. Code the data
• Themes in thematic analysis


  • Ordinary themes
  • Unforeseen themes
  • Hard to classify themes
  • Major and minor themes
• Narrative analysis


  The researchers look narratively within each case, focusing on how stories are made rather than on the outcome of the narrative
• Content analysis


  Enables the researcher to focus on human behavior indirectly