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Making Sense of Software in Qualitative Research combines several aspects of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS), helping the reader choose the most appropriate package for their specific needs and get the most out of the software once they are using it. The text considers tasks and processes, bringing them together to demystify qualitative software and encourage flexible and critical choices and uses of software in supporting analysis. This text can be read as a whole or chapters can be treated on a more stand-alone basis, building on one another to provide a holistic sense of the analytic journey without advocating a particular sequential process. Accessible and comprehensive, Making Sense of Software in Qualitative Research provides a practical but analytically grounded guide to thinking about and using software and will be an essential companion for any qualitative researcher.

Qualitative methods in social research --- Qualitative research --- Recherche qualitative --- Computer programs. --- Logiciels --- Kwalitatieve methoden. --- Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek. --- Software. --- #SBIB:303H4 --- Informatica in de sociale wetenschappen --- Qualitative analysis (Research) --- Qualitative methods (Research) --- Research --- Computer programs --- METHODES QUALITATIVES --- OUTILS INFORMATIQUES

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The Five-Level QDA method is a pedagogy for harnessing computer-assisted qualitative data analysis, or CAQDAS, packages powerfully while remaining true to the emergent spirit of qualitative and mixed-methods research. The method transcends methodologies, specific CAQDAS packages, and teaching modes, by explicating the common process that experienced researchers and CAQDAS experts unconsciously adopt when harnessing this software powerfully. The method focuses on the difference between strategies and tactics, and specifically, the contradictory nature of analytic strategies (which are to varying degrees iterative and emergent) and software tactics (which are inherently step-by-step and algorithmic). The method is concerned with the most effective way of managing this contradiction. Avoidance and compromise are problematic ways to manage the contraction, and the method instead transcends the contradiction by translating between strategies and tactics. Translation is a five-step process that makes explicit what experienced researchers and CAQDAS experts unconsciously perform. Once learned and practiced, the process rapidly becomes unconscious and second nature, avoiding a lengthy trial-and-error process for using the software powerfully. After presenting the principles and practice of the method, this entry ends by describing four case studies of qualitative research projects that were undertaken using the Five-Level QDA approach using three different CAQDAS packages.

Anthropology. --- Business and Management. --- Communication and Media Studies.