Traditions and Approach
Can be analyzed as single narratives, as collection of stories around common themes or quarries to construct an argument based on comparison between different accounts
Life Histories
substantive meaning of the data or
the structure of an account as in discourse or conversation analysis.
THE KINDS OF CONCEPTS GENERATED.
Provides a structure to the data stored and are usually searchable.
Similar to text retrieval.
TEXT BASED MANAGERS
What is identifying key dimensions and mapping the range and diversity of each phenomena?
DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS
Descriptive which detail the way of life of particular individuals, groups or organizations
Ethnographic accounts
Pairing down statements to their core meaning; thematic summaries (i.e, Descriptive accounts). Collective analytical categorization which subsumes a wide array of data in each category.
WHAT IS THE WAY DATA ARE REDUCED.
Programs which facilitates the graphic display and investigation of conceptual, cognitive and semantic networks within a data set.
CONCEPTUAL NETWORK BUILDERS
What is sorting and reducing the data to make it more manageable-Identify themes within the data?
DATA MANAGEMENT
When both content and context are analyzed: themes are analyzed with the researcher focusing on how the themes were treated or presented and the frequency of it’s occurrence.
Content analysis
Language, and the structure of talk and interaction or capturing and interpreting common sense, substantive meaning in the data
The primary focus of analysis
Allows you to label or “tag” passages of text that can later be retrieved according to the codes applied.
CODE AND RETRIEVE PROGRAM
What is finding patterns of association within the data and attempting to account for why those patterns occur?
EXPLANATORY
Which focuses on the structure of conversation and classifies interaction in terms of key linguistics systems such as turn taking and adjacent pairs.
Conversation analysis
Emphasizing the importance of retaining links to the original data and revisiting them constantly as an integral part of the analysis process.
The extent to which data are retained in context
Facilitates the searching of large amounts of data for instances as words or phrases.
TEXT RETRIEVERS
The way knowledge is produced within a particular discourse (legal medical) or adoption of theories to make sense of social action ( poverty, power, gender relations) or performance or linguistic style.
Discourse Analysis
Data ( in terms of narrated or situated account) may be treated as the phenomena under the study in which analyst seek to understand the way in which plausible ‘accounts of the world’ are constructed.
Status of the Data