How Qualitative Data Analysis Happens
How is qualitative data actually collected, analyzed, and accomplished? Real stories of How Qualitative Data Analysis Happens: Moving Beyond Themes Emerged offers an in-depth look into how qualitative social science researchers studying family issues and dynamics approach their data analyses. It moves beyond the usual vague statement of themes emerged from the data to show readers how researchers actively and consciously arrive at their themes and conclusions, revealing the complexity and time involved in making sense of thousands of pages of interview data, multiple data sources, and diverse types of data.
How Qualitative Data Analysis Happens focuses on a diversity of topics in family research across the life course. The various authors provide detailed narratives into how they analyzed their data from previous publications and what methodologies they used, ranging from arts-based research, autoethnography, community-based participatory research, ethnography, grounded theory, to narrative analysis.
Supplemental figures, images, and screenshots, which are referred to in the chapters, are included in an accompanying eResource, as well as links to the previously published work on which the chapters are based. This book is an invaluable resource for experienced and novice qualitative researchers throughout the social sciences.
ine M. Humble is Professor in Family Studies and Gerontology at Mount Saint Vincent University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
M. Elise Radina is Professor in Family Science and Social Work at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA.
How Qualitative Data Analysis Happens
Moving Beyond Themes Emerged
Edited by ine M. Humble and M. Elise Radina
First published 2019
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Contents
M. Elise Radina and ine M. Humble
Section I
Stories
Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower
Evonne Miller
Gwen Katheryn Healey
Paul C. Rosenblatt and Elizabeth Wieling
Katherine R. Allen and Karen A. Roberto
Andrea Doucet
Kevin Roy, John R. Hart, and Laura Golojuch
Colleen K. Vesely, Bethany L. Letiecq, Rachael D. Goodman, Marlene Marquez, Liciane Alves, Wendy E. Lazo, and Roberto C. Martinez
Katherine E. Speirs, Colleen K. Vesely, and Kevin Roy
Tyler Jamison
Candace L. Kemp, Mary M. Ball, and Molly M. Perkins
Anisa Zvonkovic and Andrea Swenson
H. Daniel Castellanos
Section II
Dialogues
Gwen Katheryn Healey, Evonne Miller, and Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower
Katherine R. Allen, Bethany L. Letiecq, Karen A. Roberto, Paul C. Rosenblatt, and Elizabeth Wieling
Tyler Jamison, Candace L. Kemp, Katherine E. Speirs, Andrea Swenson, and Colleen K. Vesely
H. Daniel Castellanos, Mary M. Ball, and Anisa Zvonkovic
Note: Figures are located at the eResource: www.routledge.com/9781138044678
We would like to thank the entire team at Taylor & Francis for their support and assistance throughout this process. We are also grateful to Katie Guban, who provided us with administrative support during the process of compiling all the details of this book; and Dr. Katherine Kuvalanka for her careful reading and thoughtful feedback. Finally, we both know that work such as this takes time and energy. We are therefore grateful to our families, colleagues, and friends for their unwavering support to us both.
ine M. Humble, PhD, CFLE
Professor
Department of Family Studies and Gerontology
Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
ine Humble carries out primarily qualitative research in family studies and in gerontology. Her research interests focus on family dynamics related to family rituals and transitions, in particular the transition to marriage, and in recent years, she has studied same-sex couples and LGBT aging issues. Secondary research interests are older women and healthy aging, qualitative research methods, and computer-assisted qualitative data analysiS (CAQDAS) software programs. She has published her work in scholarly journals such as the Canadian Journal on Aging, Family Relations, Journal of Family Theory & Review, Journal of GLBT Family Studies, and the Journal of Woman & Aging. She has served on the Editorial Board for Family Relations, and she is an Editorial Assistant for Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Dr. Humble also provides introductory and advanced training on MAXQDA software through her consulting company, Fada Research Consulting, facilitating full-day training workshops since 2009 to academic and government audiences.
M. Elise Radina, PhD, CFLE
Professor and Chair
Department of Family Science and Social Work
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio
Elise Radina is a qualitative methodologist whose research focuses broadly on families and health. Specifically, her research primarily focuses on mid- and later-life women in family contexts (e.g., breast cancer survivorship, positive aging, breast cancer-related lymphedema). More recently she and her student research team have turned their attention to understanding the experiences of parents who are raising children with primary lymphedema. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles that have appeared in scholarly journals. In 2012, she co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Family Theory & Review on Qualitative Methodology, Theory, and Research in Family Studies, and she serves on the Journal of Family Theory & Review Editorial Board.
- Katherine R. Allen, PhD
- Professor
- Department of Human Development and Family Science
- Virginia Tech
- Blacksburg, VA
- Liciane Alves, BS
- Graduate Student
- George Mason University
- Fairfax, VA
- Mary M. Ball, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics
- Department of Medicine