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Book of the
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Organizational Ethnography
Sierk Ybema; Dvora Yanow; Harry Wels; and Frans H Kamsteeg
SAGE (2009)
Just as newspapers do not, typically, engage with the ordinary
experiences of people's daily lives, so organizational studies has
also tended largely to ignore the humdrum, everyday experiences of
people working in organizations. However, ethnographic approaches
provide in-depth and up-close understandings of how the
'everyday-ness' of work is organized and how, in turn, work itself
organizes people and the societies they inhabit.
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Journal article of the
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Three approaches to qualitative content analysis
(Hsieh,
HF; Shannon, SE,
Qualitative Health Research 2005 vol. 15 no.
9 1277-1288)
Content analysis is a widely used qualitative research technique.
Rather than being a single method, current applications of content
analysis show three distinct approaches: conventional, directed, or
summative. All three approaches are used to interpret meaning from
the content of text data and, hence, adhere to the naturalistic
paradigm. The major differences among the approaches are coding
schemes, origins of codes, and threats to trustworthiness. In
conventional content analysis, coding categories are derived
directly from the text data. With a directed approach, analysis
starts with a theory or relevant research findings as guidance for
initial codes. A summative content analysis involves counting and
comparisons, usually of keywords or content, followed by the
interpretation of the underlying context. The authors delineate
analytic procedures specific to each approach and techniques
addressing trustworthiness with hypothetical examples drawn from
the area of end-of-life care.
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