FSS:SOC421 Qualitative data analysis - Course Information
SOC421 Qualitative data analysis and interpretation
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/3/0. 20 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PaedDr. Zdeněk Konopásek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D.
Division of Sociology – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová - Timetable
- Tue 12:00–15:40 PC25
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- SOC554 Management of qualitative data
Předmět je určen především pro studentky a studenty magisterského studia sociologie na FSS. Není určen pro studenty bakalářského studia, ať už jakéhokoli oboru. Předpokládá se schopnost samostatně studovat manuál programu, který je v angličtině; výhodou je teoretická obeznámenost s nějakou podobou kvalitativního výzkumu. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 18 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/18, only registered: 0/18 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Course objectives
- The main objectives are
1) to master - both in technical and methodological terms - the work with Atlas.ti;
2) to theoretically discuss and practice basic analytic procedures with qualitative data;
3) to prepare students for their individual work on qualitative research projects. - Syllabus
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is data? / Hermeneutic unit and primary documents
- 3. How to construct a research problem? / Segmentation and coding of data
- 4. The research problem for our work - discussion
- 5. Writing research report / Advanced coding techniques and memos
- 6. Basics of building a textual laboratory / Networks and network views
- 7. What is relevant? / Querry tool
- 8. What constitutes objectivity? / Supercodes, code hierarchies, code families
- 9. Cumulating knowledge / System closure
- 10. How to be reflexive? / Co-occurence tool
- 11. The relationship between theories and analytic practices / Related software tools
- 12. Summary
- Literature
- MUHR, Thomas & FRIESE, Susanne (2004): Atlas.ti, the knowledge workbench, v. 5.0: User’s guide and reference. Berlin: Scientific Software
- SILVERMAN, David. Doing qualitative research : a practical handbook. 1st pub. London: Sage Publications, 2000, xv, 316. ISBN 0761958231. info
- Teaching methods
- The following teaching methods are used:
1) lectures,
2) discussions of practical analytic and methodological issues,
3) individual study and analytic work on real empirical data and with the program Atlas.ti
The course is a set of lectures, discussions and practical workshops aimed at analytical work with qualitative data. The emphasis will neither be on presentation of different approaches nor on following the epistemic logic of a particular methodological tradition. Rather, we will focus, in an eclectic mode, on various practices of analytic reading and writing. Students will use, for their work, the software package for qualitative analysis Atlas.ti. Participation in the course is time-demanding, based on continuous school and home work. - Assessment methods
- The focus is on continuious analytic work on real data (both during school sessions and at home). At the end, students are required to deliver all their analytic work as a single file of the Atlas.ti programme (HPR file) and a short explanatory commentary.
They will have to pass also through a final oral examination, by means of which their ability use the software tool for a meaningful analysis will be assessed. After a short preparation, students will be asked to critically assess the work of one of their colleagues.
The overall classification will be based on a total score:
1) analytic file and related commentary (35 points max.),
2) oral exam (35 points max.),
3) continuous preparation for individual sessions during the semester (30 points max). - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2011, recent)
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