HOW QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS HAPPENS

How Qualitative Data Analysis Happens: Moving Beyond “Themes Emerged” (Volume 2) offers an in‑depth look at how qualitative social‑science researchers studying a wide range of human experiences and dynamics approach their data analyses. This expanded edition consists of 13 new chapters from a broad range of disciplines (and an added conclusion) that document the stories about how qualitative data analysis occurred. The chapters represent a diversity of disciplines (e.g., criminology, family science, education, health, nutrition, sociology, sport psychology) that focus on the human experience and describe a variety of methodological approaches.

These chapters may be used to introduce readers to newer or innovative ways of analysing data. The book moves beyond the usual vague statement that “themes emerged from the data” to show how researchers actively and consciously arrive at their themes and conclusions, revealing the complexity and time involved in making sense of thousands of pages of interview data, multiple data sources, and diverse types of data. The various authors provide detailed narratives of how they analysed their data from previous publications. The methodologies range from arts‑based research, autoethnography, community‑based participatory research, ethnography, grounded theory, to narrative analysis.

The volume allows readers to be seemingly “in the room” with these international scholars (representing Canada, the US, Austria, Germany, the UK, and the Philippines) and get their own hands vicariously dirty with the data. This expanded edition also includes a conclusion chapter in which the authors reflect on commonalities across the chapters.

The book is an invaluable resource for experienced and novice qualitative researchers throughout the social sciences, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field.

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