Some synthetic ideas to work with qualitative analysis software

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Pedro José de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/29994
• topic: Theory; Organization; Qualitative analysis software; Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Comunicação

(Excerto) 1. The Interdimensional Sociology as a paradigm for the organization of theory. 2. The syntactic segmentation of sources and the semantic sentence. 3. `Link-concepts' in the codification of the corpus. 4. The interconceptual links alphabet. 5. The argumentative links alphabet. 6. The segments card. 7. The visual index. 8. The bipolar and tripolar network maps. This paper does not intend to cover, theoretically, methodologically or technically, the wide variety of specific software used to produce qualitative analysis. I Rather, as a sociologist and user of this type of software, my aim is just to suggest some methodological and pedagogical ideas that might possibly improve: (a) the organization of the theory; (b) and the main operational tasks that this kind ofsoftware frequently offers to the social scientist in order to organize his research. 1. The Interdimensional Sociology as a paradigm for the organization of theory. This is an area where a great deal of initiative is granted to the software user. Usually, the core concepts structuring a theoretical frame are represented by a set of 'codes', organized in some coding scheme. The codes often apply to specific segments of texts or other sources to be analyzed, to make possible subsequent searches, different statistics and other kind of data treatment. These concepts are not previously given in a Classification Language or a Thesaurus by most of these softwares, but they are typically chosen and 'constructed' by the user.