Main description:
The latest edition of this bestselling textbook by Miles and Huberman not only is considerably expanded in content, but is now available in paperback. Bringing the art of qualitative analysis up-to-date, this edition adds hundreds of new techniques, ideas and references developed in the past decade to the corpus contained in the first.
The increase in the use of computers in qualitative analysis is also reflected in this volume. There is an extensive appendix on criteria to choose from among the currently available analysis packages. Through examples from a host of social science and professional disciplines, Qualitative Data Analysis remains the most comprehensive and complete treatment of this topic currently available to scholars and applied researchers.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Focusing and Bounding the Collection of Data
The Substantive Start
Focusing and Bounding the Collection of Data
Further Design Issues
Early Steps in Analysis
Within-Case Displays
Exploring and Describing
Within-Case Displays
Explaining and Predicting
Cross-Case Displays
Exploring and Describing
Cross-Case Displays
Ordering and Explaining
Matrix Displays
Some Rules of Thumb
Making Good Sense
Drawing and Verifying Conclusions
Ethical Issues in Analysis
Producing Reports
Concluding Remarks
Appendix
Choosing Computer Programs for Qualitative Data Analysis
The latest edition of this bestselling textbook by Miles and Huberman not only is considerably expanded in content, but is now available in paperback. Bringing the art of qualitative analysis up-to-date, this edition adds hundreds of new techniques, ideas and references developed in the past decade to the corpus contained in the first.
The increase in the use of computers in qualitative analysis is also reflected in this volume. There is an extensive appendix on criteria to choose from among the currently available analysis packages. Through examples from a host of social science and professional disciplines, Qualitative Data Analysis remains the most comprehensive and complete treatment of this topic currently available to scholars and applied researchers.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Focusing and Bounding the Collection of Data
The Substantive Start
Focusing and Bounding the Collection of Data
Further Design Issues
Early Steps in Analysis
Within-Case Displays
Exploring and Describing
Within-Case Displays
Explaining and Predicting
Cross-Case Displays
Exploring and Describing
Cross-Case Displays
Ordering and Explaining
Matrix Displays
Some Rules of Thumb
Making Good Sense
Drawing and Verifying Conclusions
Ethical Issues in Analysis
Producing Reports
Concluding Remarks
Appendix
Choosing Computer Programs for Qualitative Data Analysis