articleSociological Methods & ResearchFeb 14, 2022HYBRID OA

Abductive Coding: Theory Building and Qualitative (Re)Analysis

LALuis Antonio Vila‐HenningerCDClaire DupuyVVVirginie Van IngelgomMCMauro CaprioliFTFerdinand Teuber

Aarhus University · UCLouvain · +2 more institutions

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Qualitative secondary analysis has generated heated debate regarding the epistemology of qualitative research. We argue that shifting to an abductive approach provides a fruitful avenue for qualitative secondary analysts who are oriented towards theory-building. However, the concrete implementation of abduction remains underdeveloped—especially for coding. We address this key gap by outlining a set of tactics for abductive analysis that can be applied for qualitative analysis. Our approach applies Timmermans and Tavory's ( Timmermans and Tavory 2012 ; Tavory and Timmermans 2014 ) three stages of abduction in three steps for qualitative (secondary) analysis: Generating an Abductive Codebook, Abductive Data…

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  • Coding (social sciences)
  • Qualitative research
  • Computer science
  • Sociology
  • Epistemology
  • Statistics
  • Mathematics
  • Social science
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