Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook

by Matthew B. Miles, A. Michael Huberman, Johnny Saldaña

Overview

Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña’s Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook is the authoritative text for analyzing and displaying qualitative research data. The Fourth Edition maintains the analytic rigor of previous editions while showcasing a variety of new visual display models for qualitative inquiry. Graphics are added to the now-classic matrix and network illustrations of the original co-authors. Five chapters have been substantially revised, and the appendix’s annotated bibliography includes new titles in research methods. Graduate students and established scholars from all disciplines will find this resource an innovative compendium of ideas for the representation and presentation of qualitative data. As the authors demonstrate, when researchers “think display,” their analyses of social life capture the complex and vivid processes of the people and institutions studied.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506353074
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/22/2019
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Matthew B. Miles, a social psychologist, had a career-long interest in strategies for educational reform. His work focused on planned change in education, group and organizational studies, and the dissemination and implementation of research findings. His first major research project was a four-year study of six new, innovative public schools.

A. Michael Huberman’s long-term interests were in scientific epistemology and adult cognition and knowledge use. His work focused on education policy, school reform, and the practical translation of research knowledge into effective school practice. His first extensive project was a four-year study of an experimental elementary school’s implementation of Piagetian theories into classroom practice..

Johnny Saldaña is Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University’s (ASU) School of Film, Dance, and Theatre in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, where he taught from 1981 to 2014. He received his BFA in Drama and English Education in 1976, and MFA in Drama Education in 1979 from the University of Texas at Austin.

Saldaña is the author of Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change through Time (Alta Mira Press, 2003); Fundamentals of Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press, 2011); Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage (Left Coast Press, 2011); Thinking Qualitatively: Methods of Mind (Sage Publications, 2015); a commissioned title for Routledge’s World Library of Educationalists Series, Writing Qualitatively: The Selected Works of Johnny Saldaña (Routledge, 2018); co-author with the late Matthew B. Miles and A. Michael Huberman for Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook (4th ed., Sage Publications, 2020); co-author with Matt Omasta for Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life (Sage Publications, 2018); and the editor of Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre (Alta Mira Press, 2005). Previous editions of The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers have been translated into Korean, Turkish, and Chinese-Simplified.

Saldaña’s methods works have been cited and referenced in more than 16,000 research studies conducted in over 130 countries in disciplines such as K-12 and higher education, medicine and health care, technology and social media, business and economics, government and social services, the fine arts, the social sciences, human development, and communication. He has published a wide range of research articles in journals such as Research in Drama Education, The Qualitative Report, Multicultural Perspectives, Youth Theatre Journal, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Teaching Theatre, Research Studies in Music Education, Cultural Studies — Critical Methodologies, the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, the International Review of Qualitative Research, and Qualitative Inquiry, and has contributed several chapters to research methods handbooks. His most popular journal article, “Blue-Collar Qualitative Research: A Rant” (Qualitative Inquiry, 2014), has been downloaded by over 3,000 readers, according to Research Gate.

Saldaña’s research in qualitative inquiry, data analysis, and performance ethnography has received awards from the American Alliance for Theatre & Education, the National Communication Association-Ethnography Division, the American Educational Research Association’s Qualitative Research Special Interest Group, New York University’s Program in Educational Theatre, the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America, and the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

Table of Contents

List of Displays
Preface to the Fourth Edition
A Note on This Revision
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
PART I. THE SUBSTANTIVE START
Chapter 1. Introduction
The Purpose of This Book
The Nature of This Book
Our Orientation
An Approach to Qualitative Data Analysis
The Nature of Qualitative Data
Our View of Qualitative Data Analysis
Suggestions for Readers
Closure and Transition
Chapter 2. Research Design and Data Management
Introduction
Loose Versus Tight Research Designs
Displaying the Conceptual Framework
Methodologies (Genres) of Qualitative Research
Formulating Research Questions
Defining the Case
Sampling: Bounding the Collection of Data
Instrumentation
Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Data
Data Management Issues Bearing on Analysis
Closure and Transition
Chapter 3. Ethical Issues in Analysis
Introduction
Agreements With Study Participants
Ethical Issues
Ethical Conflicts and Dilemmas
Closure and Transition
Chapter 4. Fundamentals of Qualitative Data Analysis
Introduction
First Cycle Codes and Coding
First Cycle Coding Examples
Coding Craft and Design
Structure and Unity in Code Lists
Definitions of Codes
Second Cycle Coding—Pattern Codes
From Codes to Patterns
Jottings
Analytic Memoing
On Visual Data
Hypotheses, Assertions, and Propositions
Within-Case and Cross-Case Analysis
Closure and Transition
PART II. DISPLAYING THE DATA
Chapter 5. Designing Matrix, Network, and Graphic Displays
Introduction
Display Format Options
Timing of Display Design
Entering Matrix, Network, and Graphic Data
Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions From Matrix, Network, and Graphic Displays
The Methods Profiles
Closure and Transition
Chapter 6. Methods of Exploring
Introduction
Exploring Field Work in Progress
Exploring Variables
Exploring Reports in Progress
Closure and Transition
Chapter 7. Methods of Describing
Introduction
Describing Participants
Describing Variability
Describing Action
Closure and Transition
Chapter 8. Methods of Ordering
Introduction
Ordering by Time
Ordering Processes
Ordering by Cases
Closure and Transition
Chapter 9. Methods of Explaining
Introduction
Antecedent Conditions, Mediating Variables, and Outcomes
On Explanation and Causation
Explaining Interrelationship
Explaining Change
Explaining Causation
Closure and Transition
Chapter 10. Methods of Predicting
Introduction
Methods of Predicting
Closure and Transition
PART III. MAKING GOOD SENSE
Chapter 11. Drawing and Verifying Conclusions
Introduction
Tactics for Generating Meaning
Tactics for Testing or Confirming Findings
Standards for the Quality of Conclusions
Analytic Documentation
Closure and Transition
Chapter 12. Writing About Qualitative Research
Introduction
Audiences and Effects
Voices and Styles
Writing Examples and Recommendations
Traditional Presentation Modes
Progressive Presentation Modes
On Theses and Dissertations
Closure and Transition
Chapter 13. Closure
Qualitative Analysis at a Glance
Reflections
Final Advice
Appendix: An Annotated Bibliography of Qualitative Research Methods Resources
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

Excellent book! Each chapter transitions into another just like qualitative researchers transitioning from constructing a research question to following up with methodological decisions to study the phenomenon.

Karthigeyan Subramaniam

This comprehensive, practical, user-friendly book provides a wealth of data analysis strategies that are essential for any qualitative research. It is a must-have tool book for moving from data analysis to writing for publication!

Guofang Li

This easy to follow text provides detailed discussions supported by visual displays for each step of the research process. Several examples provide different perspectives; advice and recommendations guide the researcher.

Sheila J. Foley

"This book is a wonderful, valuable and truly important contribution to the field of qualitative research. Saldana has updated, innovated and altogether advanced the insights and wisdom of practice of Miles and Huberman in such a way as to amplify the value of their work while making it even more usable and inspiring to researchers concerned with engaging in rigorous, reflective, systematic and reliable empirical research. This book adds great value to the field of qualitative research and I will use it in all of my methods courses with great enthusiasm and appreciation. Thank you for your hard work, I am grateful!"

Sharon Ravitch

"I definitely plan to adopt this edition when it becomes available. In recent years, this has been a text I encourage student to use as a reference. The new edition will be a required textbook for my Advanced Qualitative Research course."

Mary Madden

Several of the data display strategies from the previous editions are retained and MHS [Miles, Huberman, and Saldana] presents them in reenvisioned and reorganized formats that will, I believe, enhance reader accessibility and comprehension...The book provides a display (p. 340), taken from the second edition, that illustrates an "overview of qualitative data analysis processes." The display is a concept map, starting with the research question and ending with the dissemination and use of the report. The bulk of MHS (Chapters 5–10) talks about what is in between these points. The concept map is complex and will be valuable for readers, whatever their level of coding experience.

Molly Engle

"Yes, this is a much improved 3rd edition and I know my students will find it extremely valuable as a handbook, instructional guide, and day-to-day resource in their qualitative analysis activities."

Carolyn Garcia

All in all, the updated Sourcebook is an impressive accomplishment in preserving Miles and Huberman’s original vision while also moving research approaches forward with the changing demands of the field...Saldaña reorganized the Sourcebook with great care and according to Miles and Huberman’s five primary purposes of data display: to explore, describe, order, explain, and predict...With all its helpful updates, the new and improved Sourcebook provides an extensive overview and a range of practical applications of possible and ‘elusive’ qualitative data analysis methods (aimed primarily at textual data).”

Elmar Hashimov

The new material is well integrated, it still has the Miles and Huberman content, but the presentation strategy adds new material and “softens” the quantitative edge of the Second Edition. I think the section on coding (Chapter 4) is an excellent presentation and surpasses similar material in Saldaña’s previous book. This book continues to be the best basic sourcebook available."

James H. Banning