Hey Valmaseda!
You don't need to wait! Just try MAXMaps, the screening is very intuitive and
very helpful regardless the user's language!
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From: "C. M. Valmaseda" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:07:45 -0800
Subject: Re: Conceptual relations for different cases/theories. NVivo 7
> 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
> ________________________________________
> 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
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Diógenes Carvajal [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 6:18 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qual-software [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lisa
> Coles
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 2:04 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>
> Dr Lisa Coles PhD BA RHV RGN
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> >>> [log in to unmask] 04/03/06 2:15 AM >>>
> 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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