Qualitative research
Approaches
Coding: from data to insights
Examples on SES research
Bryman. 2008. Social Research Methods. Oxford University Press
Bryman. 2008. Social Research Methods. Oxford University Press
How should one interpret such text? Interpretation is made both by researchers and actors.
Problem: researchers are not more detached from their objects of study than their informants. They have convictions, understandings, and conceptual orientations. Difficult to separate “external” from what they contribute when decoding & encoding informants words.
Miles & Huberman. 1994. Qualitative Data Analysis. Sage
Miles & Huberman. 1994. Qualitative Data Analysis. Sage
“an approach in which the actions researcher and members of a social setting collaborate in the diagnosis of a problem and in the development of a solution based on the diagnosis” – Bryman
Aim: Transform social environment through a process of critical inquiry – act on the world rather than being acted on – Miles & Huberman
Bryman. 2008. Social Research Methods. Oxford University Press
Examples: life history, oral history
Aim: the world views of the participant
Interview for groups
Bryman. 2008. Social Research Methods. Oxford University Press
Bryman. 2008. Social Research Methods. Oxford University Press
Conversation and discourse analysis
It is the fine-grained analysis of talk as it occurs in the interaction in naturally occurring situations
Source: Bryman (2008) Social research methods. Oxford
hh & .hh = breath in & out
We:ll = sound prolongation
(0.8) = silence in 1/10 secs
you know = emphasis
(.) = pause
Source: Bryman (2008) Social research methods. Oxford
Source: Bryman (2008) Social research methods. Oxford
Source: Bryman (2008) Social research methods. Oxford
Qualitative Data Analysis
codingReviewing transcripts or field notes and giving labels to component parts that seem to be of potential theoretical significance or that appear to be particularly salient within the social words of subjects studied
Bryman, A. 2008. Social research methods. Oxford University Press
Miles & Huberman. 1994. Qualitative Data Analysis. Sage
What makes a system resilient? 
What makes a system fail? 
Communities with higher capacity to self-organise were more likely to remain resilient
Regime shifts are large, abrupt and persistence critical transitions in the function and structure of (eco)systems
Regime shifts are large, abrupt and persistence critical transitions in the function and structure of (eco)systems
Regime shifts are large, abrupt and persistence critical transitions in the function and structure of (eco)systems
