My research topic is: "examining the effective participation of deaf and hard of hearing persons in the criminal justice system".
Objective: to assess the experiences of the deaf and those who work in the criminal justice system.
Possible data sources: deaf people, judges, police, sign language interpreters, and family members.
Data collection strategy: interview, FGD, and document review.
Question: Which one should I use: Grounded Theory or Thematic Analysis?
Thank you!!
Simplifying the answer - the grounded theory is more demanding, as its application's aim or side-effect is to create a new theory. Thematic analysis is more usual, but in this case You need to have some novelty too. What kind of novelty - depends on the researcher, or collected data itself.
Grounded Theory analysis is also a thematic analysis but its more advanced. Instead of two, we do coding at three levels in Grounded Theory analysis, i.e., open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. This helps us building-up the theory. For in-depth reading, I would suggest you to read Strauss and Corbin 1985 & 1990.
1) If you want to compare both alternatives of analysis I will suggest this book:
Russell B., and Ryan, G. (2010) Analyzing Qualiative Data. Systematic Approaches. Sage
It is very easy to follow as a starting point , with examples and how to dos.
or
MI Alhojailan (2012) Thematic analysis: A critical review of its process and evaluation. West East Journal of Social Sciences,
https://scholar.google.es/scholar?hl=es&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis=1&q=thematic+analysis+grounded+theory&btnG=#:~:text=%5BPDF%5D%20Thematic%20analysis,Social%20Sciences%2C%202012
2) If you decide on Thematic Analysis you can review :
M Vaismoradi, J Jones, H Turunen, S Snelgrove - (2016).Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis
https://nordopen.nord.no/nord-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2386408/Vaismoradi.pdf?sequence=3
Mayring, P. (2014) Qualitative content analysis: theoretical foundation, basic procedures and software solution. It is available on Social Science Open Acess Repository (SSOAR): https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-395173
Hope this help!
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