SOC554 Preparation and management of qualitative data

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Nekorjak, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PaedDr. Zdeněk Konopásek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D.
Division of Social Anthropology – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Timetable
Tue 10:00–11:40 PC25
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 18 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/18, only registered: 0/18, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/18
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Within the course students will become familiar with principles and recommended procedures of preparing, processing and saving data. In practise, they will test possible ways of preparing qualitative data intended for further analytical work. The fundamental working material will be interviews acquired within research work carried out by our faculty – e.g. EDUMIGROM project (http://www.edumigrom.eu/). The objective is to demonstrate various problems and dilemmas that commonly occur when realizing interviews and the subsequent preparations of these interviews for further processing. Apart from various types of transcription and familiarizing with programmes designed for their production, students will try to realize their own interview and its processing. The aim of the lessons is: to introduce the preparation of qualitative data (mainly interviews) for its further analysis through practical exercise; to teach students how to work with software enabling editing audio records and interview transcription; to prepare students for troubles and dilemmas of technical, methodological and ethic character that they will encounter when working with data, and to show possible solutions; introduce Atlas.ti programme; to provide information about the ongoing research and present the discussed topics by means of relevant cases and examples from practise; to accomplish practical exercise through interview and, thus, partly involve students in the research. This autumn course is followed by a spring course called The Analysis and Interpretation of Qualitative Data (SOC 421), in which students become acquainted with material analysis itself in details, which they prepared in the previous semester. Both subjects are therefore interconnected, and the autumn course is the prerequisite for the successive spring course SOC 421.
Syllabus
  • 1. Becoming familiar with the course, its purpose and procedure; 2. becoming familiar with the research project, 3. preparing for the transcription of a recorded interview; F4 programme, practical tutorial; 4. discussing a text (Ashmore/Reed); various forms of transcription – phonetic (conversation-analytical) transcription and selective transcription; 5. debating about the work on transcriptions and initiating the preparations of students’ own interviews; 6. preparing students’ own interviews in practise; 7. introduction to Atlas.ti programme; 8. administering primary documents (PD) Atlas.ti programme; processing audio files; 9. transcription and synchronization in Atlas.ti programme; 10. transcription and management focus group; 11. secondary analysis of quantitative data; 12. final discussion.
Literature
  • Collecting and interpreting qualitative materials. Edited by Norman K. Denzin - Yvonna S. Lincoln. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2003, xiii, 682. ISBN 0761926879. info
  • SILVERMAN, David. Doing qualitative research : a practical handbook. 1st pub. London: Sage Publications, 2000, xv, 316. ISBN 0761958231. info
Teaching methods
The lessons are based on the combination of a lecture and workshop. During the lessons students will work with the softwares for transcription, editing and analysis of interviews.
Assessment methods
1) Annotations of selected papers handed in during the semester 2) to prepare transcription of an existing interview, (3) preparing, accomplishing and transcribing students’ own interview (4) setting up a hermeneutic unit in Atlas.ti programme.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2012.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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