Juliet Corbin and Anselm Strauss. Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques 3 rd edition (Sage 2008)

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1 Qualitative Data Analysis PP&D U213 MGMT 291 POLSCI 273 SOCIOL 223 Winter term, 2009 Time: Friday, 9:30a - 12:20p Location: Social Ecology I Room 200 Professor Martha S. Feldman feldmanm@uci.edu Office: 226G Social Ecology I, Office Hours: Mondays 3-5p and by appointment Course Website: DESCRIPTION This course introduces students to the theory and practice of analyzing qualitative data. The course is oriented around using analysis as a spur to creativity and imaginative theorizing. Students must have qualitative data they can analyze in the course. Students who have already learned about data collection and research design for qualitative research will get the most out of this course. Students will be graded on 4 exercises (25% for each exercise) in which they analyze data and discuss the associated theory. The class sessions marked with an asterisk (*) are the sessions that you should use for these exercises. There are 6 marked class sessions. You may choose any 4 of the 6. You should analyze your data using the technique in the readings for that day and write a description of what you have done and why. For the class on January 16 th all students will develop research questions that will guide their use of the analytical techniques. Please prepare your analysis before class time so that you can discuss it in class. You may revise your analysis after the class discussion and turn it in at the following class session. Peer input for all written assignments will be organized through the class. Books and other readings: The following books are on order at the UCI Bookstore. All other readings are available electronically on the course website. Andrew Abbott. Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences (W. W. Norton, 2004). Juliet Corbin and Anselm Strauss. Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques 3 rd edition (Sage 2008) Martha S. Feldman. Strategies for Interpreting Qualitative Data (Sage 1995) Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke. Composing Qualitative Research 2 nd edition (Sage, 2007)

edu/07w/38423 DESCRIPTION This course introduces students to the theory and practice of analyzing qualitative data.

2 CLASS SESSIONS AND READINGS January 9: Introduction Karen Locke, Karen Golden-Biddle and Martha S. Feldman. Making Doubt Generative. Organization Science Samuel Hubbard Scudder. Learning to See. In John Hatton and Paul B. Plouffe (eds.) Science and its Ways of Knowing, (Prentice Hall, 1997) Assignment: Read readings and be prepared to discuss. There will be an in-class exercise based on the Scudder reading. Also be prepared to describe your data briefly. January 16: Research Paradigms Egon G. Guba and Yvonna S. Lincoln, Competing Paradigms in Qualitative Research, Chapter 6 in Handbook of Qualitative Research, edited by Denzin and Lincoln (Sage, 1994). Ann Chih Lin. Bridging Positivist and Interpretive Approaches to Qualitative Methods, Policy Studies Journal, 1998, 26(1): Karen Locke and Karen Golden-Biddle. An Introduction to Qualitative Research: Its potential for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. In Steven G. Rogelberg (ed.) Handbook of Research Methods in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Blackwell, 2002) Anne Langley. Strategies for theorizing from process data. Academy of Management Review, 1999, 24 (4): Assignment: Categorize your research questions and your data according to the types of research and analyses discussed in the readings. Several categorizing schemes are proposed and it is useful for you to use as many as possible. *January 23: What is grounded theory? Karen Locke. Grounded theory in management research. Chapters 3 and 4. (Sage, 2001). Karen Locke Rewriting the discovery of grounded theory after 25 years? Journal of Management Inquiry, 5: Coding and Categorizing Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss. The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research, Chapter V: The Constant Comparative Method of Qualitative Analysis. (Aldine de Gruyter, 1967) *James Spradley. The Ethnographic Interview, Step5, 6, 8 and 10. (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979) *January 30: Memoing 2

There will be an in-class exercise based on the Scudder reading. Also be prepared to describe your data briefly. January 16: Research Paradigms Egon G. Guba and Yvonna S.

3 Robert Emerson, Rachel Fretz and Linda Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Processing Fieldnotes: Coding and Memoing. (University of Chicago, 1995) Gounded theory revisited: Roy Suddaby. From The Editors: What Grounded Theory Is Not. Academy of Management Journal, 2006, Vol. 49, No. 4, *February 6: Coding, Categorizing and Memoing Juliet Corbin and Anselm Strauss. Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques 3 rd edition chapters 6-12 (pages ) (Sage 2008) February 13: No class *February 20: Narratives (Visitor: Professor Monica Worline, Goizueta Business School, Emory University) Barbara Czarniawska. The Narrative Turn in Social Studies. In Narratives in Social Science Research (Sage, 2004). Martha S. Feldman, Kaj Sköldberg, Ruth Nicole Brown and Debra Horner. Making Sense Of Stories: A Rhetorical Approach To Narrative Analysis. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2004, 14(2): Additional readings will be added for this week. *February 27: Heuristics Diane Vaughan. Theory Elaboration: The Heuristics of Case Analysis. In Charles C. Ragin and Howard S. Becker (eds.) What is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry (Cambridge, 1992). Vaughan, Diane. Theorizing disaster Analogy, historical ethnography, and the Challenger accident Ethnography 2004, Vol 5(3): Andrew Abbott. Chapters 3-5. In Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences (W. W. Norton, 2004). *March 6: Metatheories Martha S. Feldman. Strategies for Interpreting Qualitative Data (Sage 1995) Karl E. Weick. Theory Construction as Disciplined Imagination. Academy of Management Review, 1989, 14(4): Mats Alvesson and Kaj Sköldberg. On reflexive interpretation: They play of interpretive levels. In Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research (Sage, 2000). 3

Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques 3 rd edition chapters 6-12 (pages 117-275) (Sage 2008) February 13: No class *February 20: Narratives (Visitor: Professor

4 March 13: Analysis and the writing process (Visitors: Professor Karen Golden-Biddle, School of Management, Boston University and Professor Karen Locke, School of Business Administration, The College of William and Mary) Karen Locke and Karen Golden-Biddle Constructing opportunities for contribution: Structuring intertextual coherence and "problematizing" in organizational studies. Academy of Management Journal Vol. 40, No. 5, Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke. Introduction, Chapters 1-3. In Composing Qualitative Research (Sage, 2007). Illustrative articles for analysis to be chosen 4

Constructing opportunities for contribution: Structuring intertextual coherence and "problematizing" in organizational studies.

5 Other Possibilities: Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke. Appealing Work: An Investigation of How Ethnographic Texts Convince. Organization Science, 1993, 4(4): Richardson, Laurel. Writing: A Method of Inquiry. In Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln (eds.) Handbook of Qualitative Research (Sage, 1994) Becker, H. S Tricks of the trade: How to think about your research while you re doing it. University of Chicago Press. Valerie Janesick. Intuition and Creativity: A pas de deux for qualitative researchers. Qualitative Inquiry, 2001, 7(5): Dvora Yanow. Thinking Interpretively: Philosophical Presuppositions and the Human Sciences. In Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea (eds.) Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn. (M.E. Sharpe, 2006) John Lofland, David Snow, Leon Anderson and Lyn Lofland. Developing Analysis. In Analyzing Social Settings 4 th Edition (Wadsworth 2006). Karl E. Weick. The Attitude of Wisdom: Ambivalence as the Optimal Compromise. In Making Sense of the Organization. (Blackwell, 2001) Evelyn Fox Keller. A Feeling for the Organism. In John Hatton and Paul B. Plouffe (eds.) Science and its Ways of Knowing, (Prentice Hall, 1997) Samuel Hubbard Scudder. Learning to See. In John Hatton and Paul B. Plouffe (eds.) Science and its Ways of Knowing, (Prentice Hall, 1997) Strategic Principles: Embrace not knowing Nurture Hunches Disrupt the order 5

Tricks of the trade: How to think about your research while you re doing it. University of Chicago Press. Valerie Janesick. Intuition and Creativity: A pas de deux for qualitative researchers.

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