EBP#2 Chpt 25: Qualitative Data Analysis

A comprehensive set of vocabulary flashcards based on Chapter 25 covering qualitative data analysis techniques, research traditions, and coding methods.

Qualitative analysis

A challenging, labor-intensive activity characterized by having few standardized rules.

Qualitative content analysis

An analytic method often used by researchers who are focused on qualitative description, involving the identification of meaning units.

Spradley’s method

A 12-step ethographic analysis method involving four levels: domain analysis, taxonomic analysis, componential analysis, and theme analysis.

Leininger’s method

An ethnography analysis method with four phases ranging from initial data collection and recording to the abstraction of major themes.

Utrecht School of Phenomenology

A phenomenologic approach that uses holistic, selective, and detailed approaches to analyze data.

Theoretical sensitivity

A researcher's ability to identify relevant categories and relationships in data, emphasized in constructivist grounded theory.

Meaning units

Specific segments of text containing a single idea or piece of information, analyzed in qualitative content analysis.

Is the following statement true or false? Researchers whose focus is qualitative description may say that they used qualitative content analysis as their analytic method.

True. Researchers whose focus is qualitative description may indeed say that they used qualitative content analysis as their analytic method.

Is the following statement true or false? Hermeneutic circle signifies a methodologic process in which there is continual movement between the parts and the whole of the text under analysis.

True. The hermeneutic circle signifies a methodologic process where there is continual movement between the parts and the whole of the text being analyzed.