You are to go through the step to analysis the interviews. You are not expect to be an expert at analyzing qualitative data, however by going through the steps you can get a really good idea of what qualitative is about.
The following steps will help you in your analysis:
* Transcribe the interviews
* Develop codes to help in your analysis
* Code your transcripts by hand
* Go through the transcripts multiple times to get the gist of what is being said. See Chapter 10 in Qualitative Research Methods for ideas of how to cycle through analysis passes.
* Develop a thick description of what you found out, including any insights you might have.
* A document stating your topic and containing the interview protocol that you used in your interviews.
* Transcripts of your two interviews.
* A description of how did you performed the analysis.
* The codebook, or list of codes, you developed.
* A thick description (in narrative or table from) of the results of your interviews–include key quotes from your participants to support your description.
The book: Hennink, M., Hutter, I., & Bailey, A. (2011). Qualitative research methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Chapter 10: Textual Data Analysis
The subject area is Research Design & Methods Qualitative not Sociology. I will be send content criteria.
Conduct Interviews. Which is to analyze the text of a couple of interviews. In order to do that, you must collect the interview. The topic is What traits make people successful in the Marine Corps? That can be research using a narrative inquiry methodology or a phenomenological methodology. For example: A narrative inquiry would be to ask someone to describe deeply experience of a certain phenomenon: “How did you experience giving birth to your child? What was it like? How did you feel before and afterwards? Write up an interview protocol for an interview of the topic. Interview two people using the interview protocol, audio recording the whole interview. Aim to have the interviews last 10 to 15 minutes each.
