An Evaluation of Thematic Analysis (TA): its Features, Concepts, Processes and Validation. An inductive & detective approached in interpretive research
Conference Paper
Mohammed, Alhojailan, . 2012
اسم المؤتمر:
SSC
عنوان المؤتمر:
London
تاريخ المؤتمر:
الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 1, 2013
المنظمة الراعية:
Saudi cultural bureau and Brunel university
مستخلص المنشور:
Thematic analysis (TA), ‘practically’ in the resources of literature review shows inconsistent description and unclear issues regarding utilized, concepts, procedures, validation and interpretation. This paper aims to provide critical overview with the main differences between three types of qualitative data analysis i.e. grounded theory analysis, hermeneutics analysis and thematic analysis. Moreover, it will discuss TA in terms of utilizability, features, characteristics, description of the main steps of content analysis [process] following the model of Miles & Huberman (1994), with discussing themes’ validation procedures.
It has been found that thematic analysis approach is very suitable in instances when the research seeks to interpret individuals’ point of view. Nevertheless, thematic analysis would primarily be a very beneficial and fixable when adapting inductive and detective approached. Finally, TA apply when the researcher pursues to link diversities concepts and opinion from multi-individuals’ data, that data need to be comparison with different resources of data.