Making Sense of Qualitative Data: Complementary Research Strategies

by Amanda Coffey, Paul Anthony Atkinson

Once a research project has been designed and the data have been gathered, what is the best way to transform this information into something useful? The authors of this practical volume highlight the range of approaches available to qualitative researchers by using a single data set which they analyze using a number of techniques. With special attention paid to the possibilities in computer-aided analysis, this book will be an invaluable resource for the relatively new qualitative researcher.

Genres: Academic, Research, Qualitative Research

206 pages, Paperback

First published March 14, 1996

About the author

Amanda Coffey is Professor in Social Sciences and Dean of Education in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. Her research interests centre on ethnographic and qualitative research, and include work on young people and social change, gender and education and working lives. Amanda Coffey’s publications include Researching Young People, with Hall (2011), Key Themes in Qualitative Research, with Atkinson and Delamont (2003), Education and Social Change (2001) and The Ethnographic Self (1999).

Reviews

[Maged Zakher]

A very good resource! A must-read for all qualitative researchers out there!

[Elizabeth]

More good stuff about qualitative research.

[Lusine]

Some good points of qualitative research in general, but nothing outstanding which cannot be found in any other book on qualitative methods after the 1990s.