Networks

- are made up of blocks (nodes) connected by links

- these maps and charts can be devised in a wide variety of formats, each with the capability of
displaying different aspects of data.
- networks are particularly useful when you compare the results of several case studies

Different types of ordered information display

- Time Ordered Display

o record a sequence of events in relation to their chronology

- Conceptually ordered displays

o concentrate on variables in the form of abstract concepts related to a theory and the
relationships between
o Examples of such variables are motives, attitudes, expertise, barriers, coping strategies
etc.
- Role ordered displays
o show people’s roles and their relationships in formal and informal organizations or
groups
o a role defines a person’s standing and position by assessing their behavior and
expectations within the group or organization

- Partially ordered displays

o are useful in analyzing ‘messy’ situations without trying to impose too much internal
order on them
o for example a context chart can be designed to show, in the form of a network, the
influences and pressures that bear on an individual from surrounding organizations and
persons when making a decision to act
- Case ordered displays
o how the data of cases arranged in some kind of order according to an important variable
in the study
o this allows you to compare cases and note their different features according to where
they appear in the order
- Meta displays
o amalgamate and contrast the data from each case
o For example, a case ordered meta-matrix does this by simply arranging case matrices
next to each other in the chosen order to enable you to simply compare the data across
the meta-matrix
QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF TEXTS, DOCUMENTS AND DISCOURSE

- INTERROGATIVE INSERTION
o This method consists of devising and inserting implied questions into a text for which
the text provides the answers.
o In this way, you can uncover the logic (or lack of it) of the discourse and the direction
and emphasis of the argument as made by the author.
- PROBLEM–SOLUTION DISCOURSE
o is a further development of interrogative insertion which investigates the implications of
statements more closely
o the analysis aims to uncover the sequence of the argument by following through first
the situation, then the problem, followed by the response and the result and evaluation
- MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIZATION
o this technique analyses the way people, both writers and readers, perceive commonly
held views on social organization, how people are expected to behave, how they relate
to each other and what they do in different social situations
- RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
o It is the use of language and argument to persuade the listener or reader to believe the
author
o the analysis detects credibility markers – signals that indicate the ‘rightness’ of the
author and the ‘wrongness’ of others, such as assertions about the ‘correct’ moral
position, claims of privileged understanding and dismissal of alternatives as
unbelievable.
- NARRATIVE ANALYSIS
o is aimed at extracting themes, structures, interactions and performances from stories or
accounts that people use to explain their past, their present situation or their
interpretations of events
o It is analyzed for different aspects, such as what is said rather than how, or conversely,
the nature of the performance during the telling, and perhaps how the storyteller
reacted with the listener
- Other forms of Analysis
o SEMIOTICS
o DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Sources

• Walliman, N. (2018). Research methods: The basics. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, an imprint of
the Taylor & Francis Group.