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Rigorous Data Analysis

Beyond “Anything Goes”

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Authors:
  1. Wolff-Michael Roth

    1. University of Victoria, Canada

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  • This text shows how without knowing anything about background, context, and identities of participants, the institutional situation, social relations, and probable identities can be derived based only on some short sections of transcribed anonymized talk.

Part of the book series: Practice of Research Method (PRM)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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    1. Exergue

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 1-1

  3. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-5
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    2. Rigor in Qualitative Data Analysis

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 7-25

  4. Five Data Sessions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-33
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    2. Data Session 1 (Heidi)

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 35-49

    3. Data Session 2 (Vicky)

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 51-63

    4. Data Session 3 (Bullrush)

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 65-75

    5. Data Session 4 (Mikäela)

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 77-93

    6. Data Session 5 (Kiana)

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 95-104

  5. Rigor and the Pragmatics of Relations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-107
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    2. Turn Sequences

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 109-121

    3. Knowledge-Power and Institutional Relations

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 123-140

    4. On the Shop Floor and Playing Field

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 141-164

    5. The Documentary Method of Interpretation

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 165-187

    6. Getting Time Back into the Analysis

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 189-201

  6. Epilogue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-205
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    2. Socially Responsible Data Analysis

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 207-224

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 225-242
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About this book

In qualitative research, one can often hear the statement that research results are just (social) constructions. In criminal cases and in court hearings, we tend to expect that the true sequence of events has to be found rather than just any story. Here the author shows that qualitative social research can be conducted in the manner of police work or court proceedings. He does so by exhibiting how short pieces of transcriptions can be approached to uncover who, when, where, and how participated, what kind of social situation produced the transcription, and so on without any background knowledge other than that talk itself. Commenting on transcriptions of a researcher in the course of doing rigorous data analysis, readers learn doing ethnographically adequate accounts and critical institutional ethnography “at the elbow” of an experienced practitioners. Further topics include the role of turn sequences, the ethnomethods of knowledge-power and institutional relations, the documentary method of interpretation, and time-sensitive social analysis.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Victoria, Canada

    Wolff-Michael Roth

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rigorous Data Analysis

  • Book Subtitle: Beyond “Anything Goes”

  • Authors: Wolff-Michael Roth

  • Series Title: Practice of Research Method

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-998-2

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-998-2Published: 28 February 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 242

  • Topics: Education, general

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