The coding manual for qualitative researchers / Johnny Saldaña.

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Johnny Saldana's unique and invaluable manual demystifies the qualitative coding process with a comprehensive assessment of different coding types, examples and exercises. The ideal reference is essential reading across the social sciences and neatly guides you through the multiple approaches availa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saldaña, Johnny (Author)
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, California ; London : SAGE, [2016]
Edition:3E [Third edition].
Subjects:
Qualitative research.
Qualitative research > Data processing.
Social sciences > Research.
Research Design.
Qualitative Research.
Social Sciences > methods.
Data Interpretation, Statistical.
Evaluation Studies as Topic.
Qualitative Sozialforschung.
Qualitative Daten.
Codierung.
Methodologie.
70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research.
Online Access:
(Companion website)
Physical Description:xiv, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1 An introduction to codes and coding
  • Chapter summary
  • Purposes of the manual
  • What is a code?
  • Codifying and categorizing
  • What gets coded?
  • Coding techniques
  • The numbers of codes
  • Manual and CAQDAS coding
  • Solo and team coding
  • Necessary personal attributes for coding on method
  • 2 Writing analytic memos about narrative and visual data
  • Chapter summary
  • The purposes of analytic memo writing
  • What is an analytic memo?
  • Examples of analytic memos
  • Coding and categorizing analytic memos
  • Grounded theory and its coding canon
  • Analyzing visual data
  • 3 First cycle coding methods
  • Chapter summary
  • The coding cycles
  • Selecting the appropriate coding method(s)
  • Two common coding errors
  • Overview of first cycle coding methods
  • The coding methods profiles
  • Grammatical methods
  • Elemental methods
  • Affective methods
  • Literary and language methods
  • Exploratory methods
  • Procedural methods
  • Themeing the data
  • Forms for additional first cycle coding methods
  • 4 After first cycle coding
  • Chapter summary
  • Post-coding transitions
  • Eclectic coding
  • Code mapping and landscaping
  • Operational model diagramming
  • Additional transition methods
  • Transitioning to second cycle coding methods
  • 5 Second cycle coding methods
  • Chapter summary
  • The goals of second cycle methods
  • Overview of second cycle coding methods
  • Second cycle coding methods
  • Forms of additional second cycle coding methods
  • 6 After second cycle coding
  • Chapter summary
  • Post-coding and pre-writing transitions
  • Focusing strategies
  • From coding to theorizing
  • Formatting matters
  • Writing about coding
  • Ordering and reordering
  • Assistance from others
  • Closure
  • Appendices: A glossary of methods ; A glossary of analytic recommendations ; Field note, interview transcript, and document samples for coding ; Exercises and activities for coding and qualitative data analytic skill development.