Content Analysis
James Drisko and Tina Maschi
Abstract
This book offers an overview of the variation within content analysis, along with detailed descriptions of three approaches found in the contemporary literature: basic content analysis, interpretive content analysis, and qualitative content analysis. This book provides an inclusive and carefully differentiated examination of contemporary content analysis research purposes and methods. Chapter 1 examines the conceptual base and history of content analysis. The next three chapters examine in depth each approach as a single approach to content analysis, using brief, illustrative exemplar studies. ... More
This book offers an overview of the variation within content analysis, along with detailed descriptions of three approaches found in the contemporary literature: basic content analysis, interpretive content analysis, and qualitative content analysis. This book provides an inclusive and carefully differentiated examination of contemporary content analysis research purposes and methods. Chapter 1 examines the conceptual base and history of content analysis. The next three chapters examine in depth each approach as a single approach to content analysis, using brief, illustrative exemplar studies. Each of the methodology chapters employs a consistent outline to help readers compare and contrast the three different approaches. Chapter 5 examines rigor in content analysis and highlights steps to ensure the internal coherence of studies. The book concludes with exploration of two full-length studies. Chapter 6 examines the use of content analysis for advocacy and to build public awareness to promote human rights and social justice. Chapter 7 reviews a full-length study of older adults in prison to detail how content analysis is completed and how different approaches may be usefully combined.
Keywords:
content analysis,
interpretive content analysis,
qualitative content analysis,
rigor,
advocacy,
exemplar studies
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190215491 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190215491.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
James Drisko, author
Professor, Smith College School of Social Work
Tina Maschi, author
Associate Professor, Fordham University
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