thematic analysis Flashcards
1
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thematic analysis
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a way of analysing qualitative data and can be done inductively or deductively
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inductive
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researcher read and reread the qualitative data and themes would emerge without the researcher imposing any of their ideas or expectations from it
3
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deductive
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researcher specifying the themes that they will look for before analysing data
4
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pros to thematic analysis
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more detailed and meaningful info
5
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cons to thematic analysis
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- very little control
- unscientific as themes are highly dependant on the subjective opinions of researcher = bias researcher
6
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how does researcher collect data using thematic analysis
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- researcher develops themes into ‘codes’ which represent the categories found
- use codes to analyse data and search for instances where it appears in data (reviewed continually and changed if necessary until themes can be supported)
