Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Category: Qualitative data analysis

  • New Publication: Ethnography as Method, Practice, and Ethical Commitment

    I’m pleased to share my latest publication, which explores ethnography as a vital method within qualitative research. The article examines what makes ethnography so enduring and so necessary: its ability to capture the complexity, depth, and lived meaning of social life through immersive engagement in the field. Rather than treating people as abstract data points,…

  • Blogging as analytical aid for team-based research projects

    Research notes have traditionally played an important role in the analysis of data in social science. Apart from transcribing audio-recording, the contextual information serves as a rich source of complementary data. Indeed, various researchers have suggested additional ways of recording supplementary information (Miles and Huberman 1994). These include “interim summaries”, “self-memos”, “and researcher´s diary”. Yet,…

  • “It’s about the depth of your data”

    Fantastic article (it’s about the depth of your data) on “qualitative data analysis”, clarifying the difference between “quali” and “quanti”, but also providing rich comments on the labour of fieldnotes when doing fieldwork. I want to emphasize this parragraph and then you can read the whole article: Descriptions in fieldnotes need to be precise. Rather than…

  • Advantages of interview in pairs

    I came accross this article on “want to improve your qualitative research? try using representative sampling and working in teams” and I found interesting the advantages authors highlight with regard to do interviews in pairs: Teamwork was woven into all aspects of the project. For example, we often interviewed in pairs. This was partly for…

  • Regretting Motherhood: A Sociopolitical Analysis

    Based on in-depth interviews with twenty-three Israeli mothers, this article seeks to contribute to an ongoing inquiry into women’s subjective experiences of mothering by addressing an understudied maternal emotive and cognitive stance: regretting motherhood. The literature teaches us that within a pronatal monopoly, threatening women that they will inevitably regret not having children acts as…

  • Donald Trump discourse/language analysis

  • Black-and-white highlights the social dimension of urban photography, Ouburg suggests

    Ouburg, photographer who prefers photographing “other people above all”. I like the way he expresses why he has predilection for black-and-white photos. In many occasions, colour distracts the spectator´s attention while black-and-white make it easier to concentrate on the topic. Although he doesn´t discard colour provided that it adds something to the image. Source and more photos [spanish]

  • El enfoque semiológico en el análisis sociológico

    La peculiaridad del enfoque semiológico responde al siguiente interrogante: “¿Por qué y cómo en una determinada sociedad algo —una imagen, un conjunto de palabras, un gesto, un objeto, un comportamiento, etc.— significa? Reference Magariños de Morentin, Juan Angel (1996). Los fundamentos lógicos de la semiótica y su práctica. Buenos Aires: Edicial.

  • Framework approach to qualitative data analysis

    Practical presentation on Framework approach to qualitative data analysis (Ritchie et al. 2013; Ritchie and Spencer, 2002). I want to highlight the way it is expressed the primary objective of data management: “Re-order ‘fractured discourse” References Ritchie, J., Lewis, J., Nicholls, C. M., & Ormston, R. (Eds.). (2013). Qualitative research practice: A guide for social science students…

  • “I have my data. Now what? Qualitative coding & theme analysis”

    https://twitter.com/drkatyvigurs/status/504167291857416192 I’ve just found this tweet linked to the bellow presentation on what to do with your qualitative data once you finish the fieldwork. The content is divided first in a few tips on how to do transcription and, secondly, how to code the resulting text. There is also an interesting exercise to do in…