Qualitative Data Analysis: Practical Strategies

A variety of traditions about how to learn about the social world has grown up over the past century of scholarship and research as people have developed a method that works, considered its foundation, and gradually codified it to the point where it has become known as a particular ‘methodology’. As you face your own research problem, you can learn from others’ experiences and the methodologies they have developed, but ultimately, you will make your own decisions about how best to solve your research problem. Essentially, this book about strategies, informed by about not tied to those who have gone before, to help you to do that. We begin the analytic journey from the beginning, building on foundations, thinking about purposes, framing questions, and determining methods for answering them – all from the perspective e of how these activities will influence our capacity to analyse and interpret the data we gather.