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Title: Qualitative social research methods Analysing and Writing up your data.


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Qualitative social research methodsAnalysing and
Writing up your data.
  • SOCP0062
  • Leah Wild
  • Week 10

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Week 10 overview
  • Integrating theory with findings
  • Analysing qualitative data
  • Writing up qualitative analysis
  • Analysing discourse
  • Discussion of projects

3
Integrating theory with findings
  • Focus on research aims/objectives
  • Theory-testing, exploring, refining
  • Theory-building
  • Grounded theory
  • Concepts emerge from data up
  • But always based on preconceptions

4
Stages of analysis
  • Familiarisation with the data
  • Descriptive stage
  • Preliminary analysis stage
  • Explanatory stage
  • Verification stage

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Familiarisation with the data
  • Listen to the tapes
  • Transcribe the tapes
  • Verbatim transcription
  • Comments on non-verbatim material
  • Interview situation/events
  • Emphasis/mood/tone
  • Body language
  • Read through transcripts

6
Descriptive stage
  • Describing/summarising the story in a few
    paragraphs
  • Chronological/key issues
  • Identify important categories (from aims and
    objectives and summaries)
  • Recursive process
  • Construct and fill in thematic grid (A3)

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Thematic grid
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Preliminary analysis stage
  • Identifying conceptual categories and
    sub-categories
  • Different dimensions of attitudes to school
  • Looking for patterns in thematic grids
  • Looking for surprises/inconsistencies
  • Identifying key quotes

9
Explanatory stage
  • Multiple case analysis
  • Comparing/contrasting
  • Sorting people into categories/types
  • Identifying typologies
  • Explaining differences
  • Meta-analysis
  • Broader theory
  • Reference to previous theory/research

10
Future orientation
  • Identifying conceptual categories and
    sub-categories
  • Time orientation past, present, future
  • Extent of orientation short, medium, long
  • Nature of orientation optimism, anxiety,
    fatalism
  • Scope of orientation social, economic,
    anticipatory, precautionary
  • Putting people into categories

11
Future orientation
  • Identifying typologies
  • Optimists think ahead, in control, optimistic
  • Worriers pessimistic, anxious, not in control,
    some think ahead, some do not
  • Fatalists neither optimistic nor pessimistic, do
    not think ahead, not in control but not anxious
  • Explaining variations
  • Age, faith, income/resources

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Verification stage
  • Look for evidence against your findings
  • Motivated accounts
  • Preconceptions
  • Nature of your relationship with interviewee
  • Circumstances of the interview
  • Triangulation
  • Involve respondents
  • Respondent validation

13
Writing up
  • Use the first person I/we, not the passive
    voice
  • Different structures
  • Literature, methods, findings
  • Intro, methods, integrate literature and findings
    thematically

14
Discourse analysis
  • Analysis of language beyond the sentence
  • Representations and meanings
  • Describing discourses equally
  • Link between materiality and meaning
  • Discourses on lone mothers
  • Social threat
  • Social problem
  • Escaping patriarchy
  • Lifestyle change

15
Applying discourse analysis
  • Analyse discourse on combining work and
    parenthood
  • Analyse discourse on fear of crime
  • Analyse discourse on attitudes to school
  • Consider the underlying meaning of what is said
    not just the particular words used
  • Tone, context, body language

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Your assignment
  • Title/abstract/introduction
  • Write in first person (I/we)
  • Literature review/aims and methods
  • previous research/policy
  • conceptual framework
  • clear overall aim and researchable objectives

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Methods
  • Rationale for in-depth interviews
  • Details of particular methods used
  • Evaluate your/group role
  • Reflect on the process
  • Discuss ethics
  • Reliability and validity
  • QUOTE METHODS BOOKS!!!

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Findings
  • Clear structure (with subheadings)
  • Description of interviewees (anonymised)
  • Analytical commentary
  • Use of existing or new concepts
  • Quotations (in italics)
  • Refer to key issues from literature review
  • A clear argument is presented

19
Conclusion and bibliography
  • Summarise research findings
  • Review strengths and weaknesses of your research
  • What further research might be carried out?
  • Methods and research literature
  • Harvard style (see my website)

20
Appendices
  • Proposal/ethical approval form (signed)
  • Unsigned letter of consent
  • Group contract and journal
  • Topic guide/other materials
  • Reference to transcripts but not necessarily
    transcripts themselves

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Final tips
  • Check for overall consistency
  • Proof read
  • Leave plenty of time to print it out
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