Contents
Introduction
1 Document studies
1.1 Basic analysis
1.2 Biographical research
1.3 Secondary analysis
1.4 Meta-analysis
1.5 Strengths and weaknesses of
document studies
2 Content analysis
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Types of content analysis
2.3 Doing content analysis
Constructing categories
Coding
2.4 Methods of data analysis
Quantitative analysis
Qualitative analysis
2.5 Content analysis in the computer age
2.6 Strengths and weaknesses of
content analysis
3 Text analysis
3.1 Discourse analysis
What is discourse analysis?
Focus of discourse analysis
3.2 The hermeneutic
tradition
Introduction
Objective hermeneutics
3.3 Postmodernism
General characteristics
Reality. What do postmodernists study?
Knowledge
What is the postmodern vision of science?
Research parameters
Main points
Where to from here?
Further reading