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Qualitative data analysis
Learning how to analyse qualitative data by computer can be fun. That is one assumption underpinning this new introduction to qualitative analysis, which takes full account of how computing techniques have enhanced and transformed the field. The book provides a practical and unpretentious discussion of the main procedures for analysing qualitative data by computer, with most of its examples taken from humour or everyday life. It examines ways in which computers can contribute to greater rigour and creativity, as well as greater efficiency in analysis. The author discusses some of the pitfalls and paradoxes as well as the practicalities of computer-based qualitative analysis.
The perspective of Qualitative Data Analysis is pragmatic rather than prescriptive, introducing different possibilities without advocating one particular approach. The result is a stimulating, accessible and largely disciplineneutral text, which should appeal to a wide audience, most especially to arts and social science students and first-time qualitative analysts.
Ian Dey is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Edinburgh, where he regularly teaches research methods to undergraduates. He has extensive experience of computer-based qualitative analysis and is a developer of Hypersoft, a software package for analysing qualitative data.
Qualitative data analysis
A user-friendly guide for social scientists
Ian Dey
LONDON AND NEW YORK
First published 1993 by Routledge
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Contents
List of figures, illustrations and tables
vi
Preface
xi
Acknowledgements
xiv
1 Introduction
1
2 What is qualitative data?
10
3 What is qualitative analysis?
31
4 Introducing computers
57
5 Finding a focus
65
6 Managing data
77
7 Reading and annotating
87
8 Creating categories
100
9 Assigning categories
120
10 Splitting and splicing
137
11 Linking data
161
12 Making connections
177
13 Of maps and matrices
201
14 Corroborating evidence
227
15 Producing an account
245
16 Conclusion
272
Appendix 1: `If the Impressionists had been Dentists'
277
Appendix 2: Software
281
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