Qualitative Research: Analysis Types and Software Tools: Analysis Types & Tools - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138996998 ISBN 13: 9781138996991

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

First published in 1990. There was a time when most researchers believed that the only phenomena that counted in the social sciences were those that could be measured. To make that perfectly clear, they called any phenomenon they intended to study a 'variable', indicating that the phenomenon could vary in size, length, amount, or any other quantity. Unfortunately, not many phenomena in the human world comes naturally in quantities. If we cannot even give a useful answer to what qualitative analysis is and how it works, then it seems rather incongruent to try and involve a computer, the very essence of precision and orderliness. Isn't qualitative analysis a much too individualistic and flexible an activity to be supported by a computer? Won't a computer do exactly what qualitative researchers want to avoid, namely standardize the process? Won't it mechanize and rigidify qualitative analysis? The answer to these questions is NO, and this book explains why.

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Renata Tesch

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138996998
• ISBN 13: 9781138996991
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Tesch Renata