Comparative Keyword Analysis
1st Edition
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-84787-945-5 (ISBN)
Description
Comparative Keyword Analysis for Social Research outlines a new and growing method for analysing text for social research purposes. Comparative Keyword Analysis (CKA) uses computer technology to:
"exploit the widespread availability of large archives of qualitative text material now available to social researchers. It provides a rapid overview of key characteristics of texts which would be impossibly time consuming to analyse using conventional qualitative methods (eg: qualitative 'code and retrieval' approaches), and then provides the means to investigate the context and meaning of the patterns thus revealed."
CKA offers social researchers an extremely fast (and cheap) and efficient method of data analysis which is growing rapidly in terms of interest and popularity amongst social science researchers in both the qualitative and quantitative camps.
Seale & Black's textbook represents the first text on CKA that can be used by social scientists. As well as being a clear and introductory book, this is also a cutting edge text that could be on the front of a new wave in data analysis. The text is supplemented by a companion website offering text archives to demonstrate CKA in practice, raw data for exercises and guides to using CKA software.
Clive Seale is one of the foremost methods writers in the country.
"exploit the widespread availability of large archives of qualitative text material now available to social researchers. It provides a rapid overview of key characteristics of texts which would be impossibly time consuming to analyse using conventional qualitative methods (eg: qualitative 'code and retrieval' approaches), and then provides the means to investigate the context and meaning of the patterns thus revealed."
CKA offers social researchers an extremely fast (and cheap) and efficient method of data analysis which is growing rapidly in terms of interest and popularity amongst social science researchers in both the qualitative and quantitative camps.
Seale & Black's textbook represents the first text on CKA that can be used by social scientists. As well as being a clear and introductory book, this is also a cutting edge text that could be on the front of a new wave in data analysis. The text is supplemented by a companion website offering text archives to demonstrate CKA in practice, raw data for exercises and guides to using CKA software.
Clive Seale is one of the foremost methods writers in the country.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-84787-945-5 (9781847879455)
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Person
Clive Seale has been Professor of Sociology (or Medical Sociology) at Goldsmiths and Queen Mary's (both University of London) and Brunel University. His work has concerned communication in health care and death in modern society. He has published extensively on research methods. His books include Constructing Death: the sociology of dying and bereavement (Cambridge University Press, 1998), The Quality of Qualitative Research (Sage, 1999), Media and Health (Sage, 2003) and Gender and the Language of Illness (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010, with Jonathan Charteris-Black). Recently, he has turned to fiction, publishing a novel, Interrogating Ellie (Cloiff Books, 2015) using the pen name Julian Gray. He is currently writing another novel.