Five ways of doing qualitative analysis: Phenomenological psychology, grounded theory, discourse analysis, narrative research, and intuitive inquiry

By Fredrick J. Wertz, Kathy Charmaz, L. McMullen, R. Josselson, Rosemarie Anderson, Emalinda McSpadden. QMiP bulletin, 2011

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Introduction. Part 1. A Story of Qualitative Research in Psychology. From Innovative Practices to the Call for Methodology. The Establishment of Methodological Traditions. Contemporary Movement, Methodological Pluralism, and Challenges. Part 2. Five Approaches to Qualitative Data Analysis. The Teresa Texts: Thick Description of Living through Misfortune. F. J. Wertz, A Phenomenological Psychological Approach to Trauma and Resiliency. K. Charmaz, A Constructivist Grounded Theory Analysis of Losing and Regaining a Valued Self. L. McMullen, A Discursive Analysis of Teresa's Protocol: Enhancing Oneself, Diminishing Others. R. Josselson, Narrative Research: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Story. R. Anderson, Intuitive Inquiry: Exploring the Mirroring Discourse of Disease. Part 3. Pluralism, Participation, and Unity in Qualitative Research. Comparisons through Five Lenses. The Participant's Response. Ethics, Participant Involvement, and Analytic Methodology. Appendix: Gail's Texts.

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Recommendations for Designing and Reviewing Qualitative Research in Psychology: Promoting Methodological Integrity (2017, background): “Most recently, the comparative study of qualitative analysis by experts in five current approaches (phenomenology, grounded theory, discourse analysis, narrative research, and intuitive inquiry) yielded a description of common attitudinal and analytic practices that were traced through the history o”
Glaser or Strauss? Considerations for selecting a grounded theory study (2016, unknown): “Grounded theory adopts a flexible research design devoid of an interest in typical hypothesis testing (Charmaz & McMullen, 2011; Tweed & Charmaz, 2012), but rather seeks to have the research theory ‘emerge from the field in the course of the study’ (Miles & Huberman, 1994, p. 17).”
Qualitative Inquiry in the History of Psychology (2014, background): “…and norms, by searching research reports for descriptions of how this often masterful research with extremely important results was conducted, as Wertz et al. (2011) did in their investigation of Freud’s early psychopathology, James’s inquiry into religious experience, Kohlberg’s research on…”
The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (2009, unknown): “• case studies (Merriam, 1998; Stake, 1995) • discourse analysis (Gee, 2011; Rapley, 2007; Willig, 2008) • narrative inquiry and analysis (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000; Coffey & Atkinson, 1996; Cortazzi, 1993; Coulter & Smith, 2009; Daiute & Lightfoot, 2004; Holstein & Gubrium, 2012; Murray, 2003; Rie”
The qualitative revolution and psychology: Science, politics, and ethics. (2011, background): “In 2008, Kenneth Gergen, Ruthellen Josselson, and Mark Freeman assembled a petition of 863 members of the American Psychological Association to establish a new division of qualitative inquiry in the APA (see Wertz et al., 2011).”
"Bet you think this song is about you": Whose Narrative Is It in Narrative Research? (2011, background): “One account she found to be ―idealized and aggrandizing‖ (Wertz et al., 2011, p. 344).”