Qualitative Analysis

Margaretha Jaervinen is professor at Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research areas are client and welfare state encounters, symbolic interaction, qualitative methodologies and social problems (addiction, prostitution, homelessness). Her publication record within these areas includes books and around 45 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, Current Sociology, Youth and Society, Time & Society, British Journal of Criminology, Qualitative Inquiry and Symbolic Interaction. Nanna Mik-Meyer is professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her main areas or research is identity work in organisations, micro-sociology, qualitative methodology and processes of marginalisation (the sociology of the body, disability, homelessness). She has publish books with Routledge and Manchester University Press as well as approx. 25 peer-reviewer articles in journals such as Human Relations, Work, Employment, Society, Sociology of Health and Illness, Gender, Work and Organization, British Journal of Sociology and Journal of Classical Sociology, .

Chapter 1: Analysing qualitative data in the social science - Margaretha Jaervinen and Nanna Mik-Meyer Chapter 2: Symbolic interactionism as analytical tradition - Margaretha Jaervinen Chapter 3: Symbolic interactionism, stigma, and othering - Nanna Mik-Meyer Chapter 4: Phenomenology as qualitative methodology - Michael Gill Chapter 5: Phenomenological analysis and the relationship between researcher and field - Anne Roelsgaard Obling Chapter 6: Hermeneutics - theory and methods - Nils Gilje Chapter 7: Interpretation, prejudice and the hermeneutic circle - Soren Kristiansen Chapter 8: Critical realism as qualitative method - Lee Martin Chapter 9: Critical realism: Philosophical and methodological considerations - Amber Fletcher Chapter 10: Grounded Theory - main characteristics - Kathy Charmaz Chapter 11: Sampling and conceptualization in Grounded Theory - Catherine Colon Chapter 12: Narrative Analysis: An integrative approach - Michael Bamberg Chapter 13: Narrative analysis - thematic, structural, performative - Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson & Ditte Andersen Chapter 14: Michel Foucault's discourse analysis - Kaspar Villadsen Chapter 15: Critical discourse analysis - Teun A. van Dijk Chapter 16: Actor-network theory as analytical approach - Lise Justesen Chapter 17: Actor-network theory and qualitative interviews - Jakob Demant and Signe Ravn

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