Revealing Social Networks in Your Qualitative Data: An Approach for Increasing Analytic Firepower In Qualitative Data Analysis WILLIE L. MCKETHER Department of Sociology and Anthropology The University of Toledo JULIA GLUESING Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Wayne State University KENNETH RIOPELLE Prepared for: 2007 ETHNOGRAPHIC and QUALITATIVE RESEARCH in EDUCATION Conference Cedarville, OH

Agenda The Process At-a-Glance Highlight the 5-Step Process Implications for Researchers Questions and Answers

Interview Data to Social Network Data

At-a-Glance: the Five Steps 1. 3. 4. 5. MulitNet 2.

Qualitative Study of Migration 20th Century Domestic Migration Study Population Migration Cohort Saginaw Cohort Data Types: Oral History Interviews Secondary Sources Census Data

Field Site – Saginaw, MI

Racially Divided Community West East

Social Network Data Analysis

Generational Network Map

School Network Map

Baker’s Dozen Network Map

Childhood Friends Network Map

Implications for Researchers Bridge the Qualitative-Quantitative Gap Robust, reusable process Explore interview data from network perspective with social network software tools and methods Thus, reveal your social networks in your Qualitative Data to increase your analytic firepower in Qualitative Data Analysis.

Demo of steps on CD includes: Today’s PowerPoint Presentation Copy of paper for today’s conference Five sample interviews (Word files in (.rtf) format) An Atlas.ti HU file (.hpr5) with the interviews coded A SPSS Syntax with recode statements MultiNet Node and Link Excel “.csv” files INSNA- Corfu, Greece PowerPoint Presentation A Podcast of INSNA presentation The 22-page paper describing the conversion process in detail

Questions? Contact information: Willie L. McKether willie.mckether@utoledo.edu website: http://homepages.utoledo.edu/wmcketh