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Qualitative Research Methods: Winston Jackson and Norine Verberg
Qualitative Research Methods: Winston Jackson and Norine Verberg
Holistic Reductionistic
Theoretical coding
Done to form theoretical linkages between categories
18 families of theoretical codes: 3 examples
1. Consequence family (the six Cs: causes, contexts,
contingencies, consequences, covariances, and
conditions)
2. Interactive family (mutual effects, reciprocity, mutual
trajectory, mutual interdependence, interaction of
effects, and covariance)
3. Strategy family (strategies, tactics, mechanisms,
manipulations, maneuvering, dealing with handling
techniques, ploys, means, goals)
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C. Concept Modification and Integration
Theoretical memoing
These are the researcher’s ideas about the codes
and categories and the relationship among them
Three roles
To raise the data to a conceptual level
To develop the properties of each category
To generate hypotheses about the relationships
between categories