Researchers in the social sciences and beyond are dealing more and more with massive quantities of text data requiring analysis, from historical letters to the constant stream of content in social media. Traditional texts on statistical analysis have focused on numbers, but this book will provide a practical introduction to the quantitative analysis of textual data. Using up-to-date R methods, this book will take readers through the text analysis process, from text mining and pre-processing the text to final analysis. It includes two major case studies using historical and more contemporary text data to demonstrate the practical applications of these methods. Currently, there is no introductory how-to book on textual data analysis with R that is up-to-date and applicable across the social sciences. Code and a variety of additional resources are available on an accompanying website for the book.
What are the key 'do's' and 'don'ts' in data analysis? How can you anticipate and tackle the main problems? In this novel and refreshing textbook David de Vaus directs students to the core of data analysis. The book is an authoritative guide to the problems facing beginners in the field. Fifty Key Problems in Data Analysis guides students in: * ......
What are the key 'do's' and 'don'ts' in data analysis? How can you anticipate and tackle the main problems? In this novel and refreshing textbook David de Vaus directs students to the core of data analysis. The book is an authoritative guide to the problems facing beginners in the field. Fifty Key Problems in Data Analysis guides students in: * ......
Repeated surveys, a technique for asking the same questions to different samples of people, allows resea rchers to analyse changes in society as a whole. Firebaugh s hows how to separate cohort, period and age effects, and mod el aggregate trends. '
What basic knowledge and skills do novice researchers in social science require? How can students be helped to over-come 'symbol phobia' or 'figure blindness'? This generous and constantly insightful book is designed for social researchers who need to know what procedures to use under what circumstances, in practical research projects. It ......
What basic knowledge and skills do novice researchers in social science require? How can students be helped to over-come 'symbol phobia' or 'figure blindness'? This generous and constantly insightful book is designed for social researchers who need to know what procedures to use under what circumstances, in practical research projects. It ......
The fully updated Second Edition presents systematic methods for analyzing qualitative data with clear and easy-to-understand steps. Real examples drawn from social science and health literature along with carefully crafted, hands-on exercises at the end of each chapter allow readers to master key techniques and apply them to their own disciplines.
An introduction to a variety of techniques that may be used in the analysis of data from a panel study -- information obtained from a large number of entities at two or more points in time. The focus of this volume is on analysis rather than problems of sampling or design, and its emphasis is on application rather than theory.
Narrative Ethnography expands the focus of narrative analysis to the broader realm of what is called narrative practice. Typically, contemporary narrative analysis focuses on the internal organization of stories. Authors Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein take up a new, yet related, topic: the social organization of narrative practice. Specifically, they argue that researchers must begin to systematically consider the contexts, circumstances, and resources that shape the production of narratives. The authors provide both the analytic and procedural dimensions of narrative ethnography. The title and term onarrative ethnographyo already is directive and the authors have been developing this vocabulary for decades. Other analytic terms form the basis for chapters and sections of the book: narrative horizons, narrative linkage, narrative editing, narrative space, narrative exposure, narrative control, narrative authenticity, and narrative embeddedness, among others. The book is organized into three sections. The introductory chapters of Part I develop in detail the rationale for, and historical background of, narrative ethnography.Part II focuses on various sensitizing concepts, their procedural contours, and related illustrative material. Part III is comprised of summary chapters that take up broader representational and explanatory issues, such as how to approach the study of narrative practice in relation to the challenges of postmodern, global, and postcolonial perspectives. Narrative Ethnography can be used as a main text in graduate research methods courses across the social sciences and human service professions in which ethnographic and narrative practice are emphasized.
