Life with and without coding: Two methods for early-stage data analysis in qualitative research aiming at causal explanations

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Gläse, Jochen ^a   Laudel, Grit ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causal mechanisms; Coding; Grounded theory method; Qualitative content analysis; Sociological explanations; Theory guided research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875716714     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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