Analyzing Mixed Methods Data
Mixed methods approaches are becoming increasingly popular in practical empirical research. At the beginning of the 2000s, a global and interdisciplinary mixed methods community was formed, presenting mixed methods approaches and research projects at many
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lyzing Qualitative Data with MAXQDA Text, Audio, and Video
Analyzing Qualitative Data with MAXQDA
Udo Kuckartz • Stefan Rädiker
Analyzing Qualitative Data with MAXQDA Text, Audio, and Video
Udo Kuckartz Berlin, Germany
Stefan Rädiker Verden, Germany
Translation from the German language edition: Analyse qualitativer Daten mit MAXQDA by Stefan Rädiker, Udo Kuckartz Copyright # Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2019. All Rights Reserved. ISBN 978-3-030-15670-1 ISBN 978-3-030-15671-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15671-8
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Preface
“To begin at the beginning” is the opening line of the play Under Milk Wood by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. So, we also want to start here at the beginning and start with some information about the history of the analysis software MAXQDA. This story is quite long; it begins in 1989 with a first version of the software, then just called “MAX,” for the operating system DOS and a book in the German language. The book’s title was Text Analysis Software for the Social Sciences. Introduction to MAX and Textbase Alpha written by Udo Kuckartz, published by Gustav Fischer in 1992. Since then, there have been many changes and innovations: technological, conceptual, and methodological. MAXQDA has its roots in social science methodology; the original name MAX was reference to the sociologist Max Weber, whose methodology combined quantitative and qualitative methods, explanation, and understanding in a way that was unique at the time, the beginning of the twentieth century. Since the first versions, MAX (later named winMAX and MAXQDA) has always been a very inno
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