The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis

Uwe Flick

SAGE, Dec 18, 2013 - Social Science - 664 pages

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.

Contents

• Mapping the Field: 1
• 1 Mapping the Field: 3
• Concepts Contexts Basics: 19
• 2 Notes Toward a Theory of Qualitative Data Analysis: 21
• 3 Analytic Inspiration in Ethnographic Fieldwork: 35
• 4 Sampling Strategies in Qualitative Research: 49
• 5 Transcription as a Crucial Step of Data Analysis: 64
• 6 Collaborative Analysis of Qualitative Data: 79
• Dimensions Cases and Strategies: 94
• 8 Reflexivity and the Practice of Qualitative Research: 109
• 9 Induction Deduction Abduction: 123
• 10 Interpretation and Analysis: 136
• Analytic Strategies: 151
• 11 Grounded Theory and Theoretical Coding: 153
• 12 Qualitative Content Analysis: 170
• 13 Phenomenology as a Research Method: 184
• The Constructionist Approach: 203
• 15 Documentary Method: 217
• 16 Hermeneutics and Objective Hermeneutics: 234
• 17 Cultural Studies: 247
• Understanding Culture through Social Media Data: 262
• 19 Using Software in Qualitative Analysis: 277
• Types of Data and their Analysis: 295
• 20 Analysing Interviews: 297
• 21 Analysing Focus Groups: 313
• 22 Conversations and Conversation Analysis: 327
• 23 Discourses and Discourse Analysis: 341
• 24 Analysing Observations: 354
• 25 Analysing Documents: 367
• 26 Analysing News Media: 380
• 27 Analysing Images: 394
• 28 Analysis of Film: 409
• 29 Analysing Sounds: 424
• 30 Video Analysis and Videography: 435
• 31 Analysing Virtual Data: 450
• Using and Assessing Qualitative Data Analysis: 465
• 32 Reanalysis of Qualitative Data: 467
• 33 Qualitative Metaanalysis: 481
• 34 Quality of Data Analysis: 496
• 35 Ethical Use of Qualitative Data and Findings: 510
• 36 Analytic Integration in Qualitatively Driven QUAL Mixed and Multiple Methods Designs: 524
• 37 Generalization in and from Qualitative Analysis: 540
• 38 Theorization from Data: 554
• 39 Writing andas Analysis or Performing the World: 569
• Putting Analyses into Practice: 585
• Author Index: 600
• Subject Index: 613

About the author

Uwe Flick is a professor of qualitative research at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is a psychologist and sociologist and holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin. He has been professor at Alice Salomon University (Berlin) and at University of Vienna, Austria. His main research interests include qualitative methods, access to labor market for refugees and after migration, social representations of health, vulnerability, youth homelessness, and technological change in everyday life. He edited The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis (SAGE, 2014), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (SAGE, 2018), The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit (2nd ed. SAGE, 2018). He is the author of Introducing Research Methodology: A Beginner's Guide to Doing a Research Project (2nd ed., SAGE, 2015), Designing Qualitative Research (2nd ed., SAGE, 2018), Doing Grounded Theory (SAGE, 2018), Doing Triangulation and Mixed Methods (SAGE, 2018), and, most recently, of An Introduction to Qualitative Research (6th ed., SAGE, 2018).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis
• Editor: Uwe Flick
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: SAGE, 2013
• ISBN: 1446296695, 9781446296691
• Length: 664 pages
• Subjects: Reference / Research; Social Science / Research