Thematic Analysis 1
A method for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) within data.
What is thematic analysis?
A method for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) within data.
What is thematic analysis?
With this type of approach, themes are identified within the explicit or surface meanings of the data and the analyst is not looking for anything beyond what a participant has said or written.
What is a semantic approach?
A software used to organize data and improve credibility of the analysis through a systematic and comprehensive audit trail.
What is Dedoose?
A process when an ethnographer reads field notes line-by-line to identify and formulate any and all ideas, themes, or issues they suggest, no matter how varied and disparate.
What is open coding?
A term referring to all data collected for a particular research project.
What is data corpus?
This is something important about the data in relation to the research question, and represents some level of patterned response or meaning within the data set.
What is a theme?
An approach that goes beyond the semantic content of the data, and starts to identify or examine the underlying ideas, assumptions, and conceptualizations - and ideologies - that are theorized as shaping or informing the semantic content of the data.
What is the latent level approach?
When thematic analysis works well in relation to the coded extracts and the entire dataset and is coherent and distinct.
What is robust?
When an ethnographer writes down a mass of ideas, insights, and connections gathered from a line-by-line analysis of fieldnotes.
What are theoretical or initial memos?
A term referring to all of the data from a data corpus that is being used for a particular analysis.
What is a data set?
A thematic analysis approach when the themes identified are strongly linked to the data themselves. A process of coding data without trying to fit it into the researchers analytic preconceptions.
What is inductive or 'bottom up'?
This research knowledge guides what you can say about your data, and informs how you theorize meaning.
What is epistemology?
In qualitative research, __________ rests on the transferability of perceptions and experiences to other settings rather than generalizability to a population, thus comments from a subset of a survey are popular.
What is validity?
A process when a fieldworker subjects fieldnotes to fine-grained, line-by-line analysis on the basis of topics that have been identified as of particular interest.
What is focused coding?
A term used to refer to each individual piece of data collected, which together make up the data set or corpus.
ex. an individual surgeon review, a television documentary, or one particular website.
What is the data item?
A thematic analysis driven by the researcher's theoretical or analytic interest in the area. An analyst-driven technique that analyzes some aspect of the data rather than the data overall.
What is theoretical or deductive or 'top down'?
What is essentialist/realist approach?
When an individual moves back and forth as needed, throughout six phases of analysis.
What is the recursive process?
A process in which a fieldworker identifies clear sense of ideas and themes he/she wants to pursue and clarifies and links these themes together in a focused note.
What are integrative memos?
A term referring to an individual coded chunk of data, which has been identified within, and extracted from, a data item.
What is data extract?
A theory that acknowledges the ways individuals make meaning of their experience, and, in turn, the ways the broader social context impinges on those meanings, while retaining focus on the material and other limits of 'reality'.
What is critical realism?
A perspective where meaning and experience are socially produced and reproduced, rather than inhering within individuals.
What is a constructionist perspective?
An issue when you are committed to method rather than topic/content or research questions.
What is methodolatry?
__________ lies in devising a systematic method whose assumptions are congruent with the way one conceptualizes the subject matter.
What is rigor?