Thorsten, maxmaps could be interesting, I just have to wait for the English
version to see if it really works for what I want. Thanks!
Diógenes, thanks for your tip, is very useful for seeing quotes by authors
and/or theories. But I would really like is to see are the relations of
codes I make from these quotations (or even without quoting at all) so that
I could select some codes and see the different relations of these for
different authors/theories in a model. For example, I need to see the
relations of the code <Concepts> for 3 different author/theories; when I
select (or filter, or whatever) the code <Concept> an author I could see a
model (an scheme of code-relations) like <Concept> 'is same as' <best
exemplar>; if I select other author/theory it could be <Concept> 'is
inferred from' <behavior> and 'is same as' <non-formal theory>, and for
another one <Concept> 'is same as' <prototype> and 'is inferred from'
<behavior> ...
More ideas?
If no software is allowing to compare and/or explicit this kind of
theoretical/conceptual systems properly (as it seems) I would be very glad
to help on developing tools for this. Even my thesis could bring some
insights on this topic.
Regards,
Costa
C. M. Valmaseda
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From: Thorsten Dresing [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 12:34 AM
To: C. M. Valmaseda
Subject: Re: Conceptual relations for different cases/theories. NVivo 7
do you use maxqda with the new addon max maps? you are able to create maps
and use the code-matrix browser as an overview of interviews and coded
segments. www.maxqda.de (the english release of maxmaps will be in 1 month
but you are able to download the german trial and change language in
english, it works)
best wishes
thorsten
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From: Diógenes Carvajal [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 6:18 PM
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Subject: Re: Conceptual relations for different cases/theories. NVivo 7
Hi Costa,
I usually use ATLAS.ti in my research processes, and there is one tool that
may help you: primary documents family (PD family). A PD family is a
collection of documents that share something in common, and is independent
from a category. In your case I would suggest to create the analytical
categories you need (mind, etc.), and code your documents to those
categories it doesn't matter if it is Chalmers who says it, or if it is
related to Functionalism. In the PD Family Manager create families to
organize your documents: Chalmers's docs, Functiontalisim's docs, and so on.
Later you can use the PD family to filter your information: select, e.g.,
Documents/Filter/Family/Chalmers, and when creating an output of any
category (e.g. mind), you will only have the quotes for mind that pertaining
to documents belonging to the family selected.
I don't know how to do this in NVivo 7 (I have mainly worked N6). Hope this
helps.
Diógenes
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Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 2:04 AM
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Subject: Re: Conceptual relations for different cases/theories. NVivo 7
Hi
I am not using qualitative software for this yet as a manual trawl through
transcripts is suffuicient at present but I am interested in any literature
related to the subject. I am comparing theories for prevention in health
promotion that arise in focus groups with parents and professionals. It is
an offshoot of a wider study. Any ideas?
I have identified text where participants rationalise their actions with a
justification that could be matched with a theoretical perspective.
Thanks
Lisa
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Hi all,
Is there anyone trying to use qualitative software to compare theories?
I'm trying to compare the relations that a concept has for different authors
(or interviewed people), or in different theories; i.e I'd like to compare
(just to be able to display in the screen separately and immediately) an
scheme of the relations that a concept like "mind" maintains with other
concepts for someone I have interviewed, another for an author like
Chalmers, another for Functionalism, and so on...
But I don't want to create a new code for each one (like Chalmers-mind,
Functionalism-mind...), just to filter the relations when I want to focus on
one/some of them.
Any ideas?
Does anyone have experience doing something similar?
The main programs I'm using right now is NVivo 7 (demoing) and Atlas.ti 5.0,
but if there were a software able to manage this better, please, let me know
it...
Thanks in advance,
Costa
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