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Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology equips students and researchers in psychology and the social sciences to carry out qualitative data analysis, focusing on four major methods (grounded theory, interpretative phenomenological analysis, discourse analysis and narrative analysis). Assuming no prior knowledge of qualitative research, chapters on the nature, assumptions and practicalities of each method are written by acknowledged experts. To help students and researchers make informed methodological choices about their own research the book addresses data collection and the writing up of research using each method, while providing a sustained comparison of the four methods, backed up with authoritative analyses using the different methods.
Doing Discourse Analysis
Doing Discourse Analysis
This chapter presents one researcher's account of how an analytic group applied the principles of Foucauldian discourse analysis to transcripts of two interviews with ex-soldiers which offered accounts of being in and leaving the army and post-army life. The chapter begins by identifying the discursive objects that were focused on in the analysis and then provides an account of how the various stages of the analytic process ...
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