Analysis in Qualitative Research
- Hennie R Boeije - University of Utrecht, Netherlands
The author sets out an easy-to-use model for coding data in order to break it down into parts, and then to reassemble it to create a meaningful picture of the phenomenon under study. Full of useful advice, the book guides the reader through the last difficult integrating phase of qualitative analysis including diagramming, memoing, thinking aloud, and using one's feelings, and how to incorporate the use of software where appropriate.
Ideal for third year undergraduate students, master students, postgraduates and anybody beginning a research project, the book includes examples covering a wide range of subjects - making the book useful for students across the social science disciplines.
Hennie Boeije is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Methodology and Statistics of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Analysis is often overlooked in reserach in adult and community education. This text provides a really useful guide
Very useful for our Media Honours students. Again the financial constraints of South African students limits them in buying all the books. So we buy for the Library rather than for individual students.
This is a good book which provides concise explanation of the analysis strategies for qualitative research. I put it down in the list of additional literature for the module.
A very useful text book that is extremely clear to follow and provides helpful examples to the reader. It is one of the best text books I have seen on Qualitative Research. Hennie Boeije's books gives step-by-step instructions on how to unravel the 'mysteries' of qualitative data analysis. I will not hesitate to recommend it to my students.
I gave this to some students working on M.Sc. and Ph.D. level research projects. For the M.Sc. level they found it was easy to find the material they were looking for. I would have like to have seen a more elaborated section (maybe some more examples) on creating conceptual models/theory building.
A useful introduction to the qualitative research process for undergraduate and postgraduate students who need an overview of this topic area. The use of learniong objectives at the beginning of each chapter is helpful and aids the reader in identifying learning needs.
An excellent additional resource for my students
The book gives a good outline about QL data analysis. Shorter than some clasical texts in the field yet comprehensive.
A well-drafted book. although not alltogether convincing. As this is about a very basic level of social science education, I would prefer something more profound and encompassing.
Although this book covers many of the relevant areas for qualitative data analysis and is very informative, there could be a few more practical examples for students in order to better illustrate the techniques under consideration.
