Telling the CAQDAS code: Membership categorization and the accomplishment of ‘coding rules’ in research team talk

Housley, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1568-9093 and Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 2011. Telling the CAQDAS code: Membership categorization and the accomplishment of ‘coding rules’ in research team talk. Discourse Studies 13 (4) , pp. 417-434. 10.1177/1461445611403258

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Abstract

During the course of this article we examine data gathered from two research meetings in which coding issues and data organization are being discussed in relation to the use of the software package Atlas.ti. The meetings were concerned with the organization and coding of semi-structured interviews carried out by three different groups as part of a wider collaborative research project. A number of papers have considered aspects of coding practice in teams or small groups; however, little work exists on the analysis of first order collaborative CAQDAS coding interaction. In doing so, this article re-specifies formal coding and collaboration models through the examination of practical methods of situated interaction and data sense-making in the course of producing social scientific facts and explanation. In this sense, the analysis reveals the way in which the professional argot of social science codes can be understood to rely on everyday methods of sense-making within team based contexts. These methods can be understood to be realized through the fine-detailed ‘granular’ categorical and sequential specifics of talk-in-meetings where matters relating to social scientific reasoning, accountability, stakeholders’ interests, defeasible and defensible reasoning protocols, disciplinary rights and the ‘search for underlying patterns’ are salient features and recognizable and accountable concerns for team members as a routine aspect of doing qualitative social science.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	coding; interview data; meetings; membership categorization analysis; qualitative methods; research teams; talk-in-interaction
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	1461-4456
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 08:19
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/27963

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