Research Catalog

Title

Reworking qualitative data / Janet Heaton.

Author

Heaton, Janet.

Publication

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2004.

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Description

x, 160 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

What is qualitative secondary analysis? How can it be most effectively applied in social research? This timely and accomplished book offers readers a well informed, reliable guide to all aspects of qualitative secondary analysis.

Subject

• Qualitative research
• Social sciences > Statistical methods
• Medical sciences > Statistical methods
• Statistics > Methodology
• Qualitative Research
• Health Services Research > methods
• Research Design

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-150) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What is Secondary Analysis? -- The analysis of pre-existing data in social research -- Functions of secondary analysis -- Modes of secondary analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 From Quantitative to Qualitative Secondary Analysis -- Developments in data archiving and computing -- The promotion of data sharing and data retention -- Potential benefits and problems of re-using data -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Types of Qualitative Secondary Analysis -- Overview of the studies -- Supra analysis -- Supplementary analysis -- Re-analysis -- Amplified analysis -- Assorted analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Epistemological Issues -- The nature of qualitative research -- The problem of data 'fit' -- The problem of not having 'been there' -- The problem of verification -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Ethical and Legal Issues -- Ethical and legal frameworks for social research -- Informed consent -- Confidentiality -- Copyright -- Data protection -- Defamation Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Modi Operandi -- Design -- Selection of data set(s) -- Analysis -- Quality assurance -- Reportage Reflexivity Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 The Future of Qualitative Secondary Analysis -- The nature of qualitative secondary analysis -- Secondary analysis and the 'landscape' of qualitative research -- The secondary analyst as bricoleur -- Resources for qualitative secondary analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes

ISBN

• 0761971432 (pbk.)
• 0761971424

LCCN

^^2003109252

OCLC

55870868

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library