Handling qualitative data :
Published by : SAGE Publications, (London ; | Thousand Oaks, CA :) Physical details: xiv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ISBN:0761942580; 9780761942580; 0761942599; 9780761942597.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie | 300.72 RIC (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | APA041553 |
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| 300.72 RAG Constructing social research : | 300.72 REY Ethics and social science research / | 300.72 RGN Papers read at the symposium on research methodologies "Die Eiland", 4-6 September 1989 = | 300.72 RIC Handling qualitative data : | 300.72 ROS Beginning behavioral research : | 300.72 ROS Beginning behavioral research : | 300.72 ROS Beginning behavioral research : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting up -- Setting up your project -- Qualitative data -- Data records -- Working with the data -- Up from the data -- Coding -- Handling ideas -- Making sense of your data -- What are you aiming for? -- Searching the data -- Seeing a whole -- Telling it.
Handling Qualitative Data introduces students and practitioners to qualitative research in a uniquely practical manner. Firstly, it recognizes that for many novice researchers, data, rather than methods and their philosophical underpinnings, are the point of departure. Secondly, it advocates a progressive accumulation of skills and understanding of methodological issues as they are needed. This enables the student to perform efficaciously from the start by immediately being in a position to handle, reflect on and get results from, small amounts of data, giving them a launch pad to more complex endeavours. The book provides pragmatic, informal and succinct assistance in the processes of meeting, sorting, coding, documenting and exploring unstructured records. It smoothly integrates software use into data handling as and when it is necessary, with discussion of challenges. It guides the reader to debates about the nature and interpretation of such data and the goals of valid and useful outcomes from qualitative analysis. This text will assist novice researchers to do justice to such data, whatever their background or opportunities for further methods training. Provided by publisher.
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