Quotes

"Dialogue is mutual search for a new reality, not debate to win with stronger arguments. In a dialogue propositions are pointers toward a common new reality; not against each other to win a verbal battle, but complementing each other in an effort to accommodate legitimate goals of all parties, inspired by theories and values, and constructive-creative-concrete enough to become a causa finalis". Galtuung


"I use the concept of affect as away of talking about a margin of manouverability, the 'where we might be able to go' and 'what we might be able to do' in every present situation. I guess 'affect' is a word I use for 'hope': Massumi


"A discourse is a system of words, actions, rules, beliefs, and institutions that share common values. Particular discourses sustain particular worldviews. We might even think of a discourse as a worldview in action. Discourses tend to be invisible--taken for granted as part of the fabric of reality."Fairclough


Emergence is “the principle that entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the whole, not to its parts.” Checkland


"What the designer cares about is whether the user perceives that some action is possible (or in the case of perceived non-affordances, not possible)." Norman




Wednesday 20 April 2011

Thematic Analysis - Boyatzis

Thematic Analysis

May be identified at a "manifest level"(Directly observable in the info) or the latent level (underlying the info) generated inductively from raw information (Hume?) or deductively from theory and prior research (Godel?) compilation of such codes is called a codebook... (Post structuralist?)

The method has widespread use yet not much has been written on technique. It has typically been passed from experienced professional to professional in training like the motto of a secret society...

Thematic annalysis is a translator from those speacking the langiuage of  qualitative analysis to those speaking the language of quantitative anlyisis (hence claims to do a similar thing to Checklands SSM)


Boyatzis R . Transforming qualitative info 1998



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