The Coding Manual for Qualitative ResearchersJohnny Saldaņa’s unique and invaluable manual demystifies the qualitative coding process with a comprehensive assessment of different coding types, examples and exercises. The ideal reference for students, teachers, and practitioners of qualitative inquiry, it is essential reading across the social sciences and neatly guides you through the multiple approaches available for coding qualitative data. Its wide array of strategies, from the more straightforward to the more complex, is skillfully explained and carefully exemplified providing a complete toolkit of codes and skills that can be applied to any research project. For each code Saldaņa provides information about the method′s origin, gives a detailed description of the method, demonstrates its practical applications, and sets out a clearly illustrated example with analytic follow-up.
This international bestseller is an extremely usable, robust manual and is a must-have resource for qualitative researchers at all levels. |
Contents
What Gets Coded? | |
Solo and Team Coding | |
Grammatical Methods | |
Literary and Language Methods | |
Exploratory Methods | |
Procedural Methods | |
Chapter Summary | |
The top 10 list | |
Closure | |
Appendix B A Glossary of Analytic Recommendations | |
Appendix C Field Note Interview Transcript and Document Samples | |
Coding | |
Index | |
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action analytic memo writing and/or applied Axial Coding CAQDAS programs Causation Coding Chapter Charmaz coded data codes and categories Codeweaving Coding is appropriate Concept Coding content analysis Corbin & Strauss cultural cycle coding methods data corpus Descriptive Coding DeWalt discourse analysis documents Domain and Taxonomic Dramaturgical Coding Eclectic Coding emergent ethnography Evaluation example excerpt experiences explore field notes fieldwork Focused Coding Glaser & Strauss goals grounded theory Hispanic Holstein Initial Coding interaction interpretive interview transcripts label Longitudinal Coding Magnitude Coding major manual meaning mixed methods Motif narrative narrative analysis observations outcomes participant observation participant's participants Pattern Coding perspectives phenomenology phrases Process Coding qualitative data analysis qualitative inquiry qualitative research qualitative studies quantitative recommended reflection Sage Saldaņa second cycle coding semantic network Simultaneous Coding social story subcategories Subcoding teacher theatre Themeing the Data Theoretical Coding Thousand Oaks Values Coding Versus Coding visual Vivo Coding Walnut Creek