Qualitative Analysis

Helping the reader get to grips with theory and apply it to qualitative analysis, the authors introduce eight analytical approaches that are key to social science research.

Chapter 1: Analysing qualitative data in the social science - Margaretha Järvinen and Nanna Mik-Meyer
Chapter 2: Symbolic interactionism as analytical tradition - Margaretha Järvinen
Chapter 3: Symbolic interactionism, stigma, and othering - Nanna Mik-Meyer
Chapter 4: Phenomenology as qualitative methodology - Michael Gill
Chapter 5: Phenomenological analysis and the relationship between researcher and field - Anne Roelsgaard Obling
Chapter 6: Hermeneutics - theory and methods - Nils Gilje
Chapter 7: Interpretation, prejudice and the hermeneutic circle - Søren Kristiansen
Chapter 8: Critical realism as qualitative method - Lee Martin
Chapter 9: Critical realism: Philosophical and methodological considerations - Amber Fletcher
Chapter 10: Grounded Theory - main characteristics - Kathy Charmaz
Chapter 11: Sampling and conceptualization in Grounded Theory - Catherine Colon
Chapter 12: Narrative Analysis: An integrative approach - Michael Bamberg
Chapter 13: Narrative analysis - thematic, structural, performative - Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson & Ditte Andersen
Chapter 14: Michel Foucault's discourse analysis - Kaspar Villadsen
Chapter 15: Critical discourse analysis - Teun A. van Dijk
Chapter 16: Actor-network theory as analytical approach - Lise Justesen
Chapter 17: Actor-network theory and qualitative interviews - Jakob Demant and Signe Ravn