In this fully updated and expanded second edition, Carol Grbich provides a guide through current issues in the analysis of qualitative data. Packed with detailed examples, a glossary, further reading lists and a section on writing up, this book is exactly what you need to get you started in qualitative research.

The new edition covers analytical approaches including:

- grounded theory

- classical, existential and hermeneutic phenomenology

- feminist research including memory work

- classical, auto- and cyberethnography as well as ethnodrama

- content, narrative, conversation and discourse analysis

- visual interpretation

- semiotic, structural and poststructural analyses

A one-stop-shop for students new to qualitative data analysis!

PART ONE: GENERAL APPROACHES TO COLLECTING AND ANALYZING QUALITATIVE DATA
Introduction
Design Methodologies, Data Management and Analytical Approaches
Incorporating Data from Multiple Sources: Mixing Methods
PART TWO: TRADITIONAL ANALYTICAL APPROACHES
Classical Ethnography
Critical Ethnographic Approaches
Feminist Approaches
Grounded Theory
Phenomenology
PART THREE: NEWER QUALITATIVE APPROACHES
Postmodern Influences on Society and Qualitative Research
Auto-Ethnography
Poetic Inquiry
Ethnodrama and Performative Art
Cyber-Ethnography and E-Research
PART FOUR: ANALYTIC APPROACHES FOR EXISTING DOCUMENTATION
Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
Semiotic Structural and Post-Structural Analysis (Deconstruction)
Content Analysis of Texts
Content Analysis of Visual Documentation
Narrative Analysis
Conversation Analysis
Discourse Analysis
PART FIVE: DATA MANAGEMENT USING QUALITATIVE COMPUTER PROGRAMMES
Coding
An Overview of Qualitative Computer Programs
PART SIX: INTERPRETING AND PRESENTING QUALITATIVE DATA
Theorizing from Data
Innovative Data Display

Carol Grbich is in the Faculty of Health Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia.