{"id":26518,"date":"2016-05-19T10:34:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T09:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maxqda.de\/?p=26518"},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:27:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T14:27:40","slug":"research-diary-using-maxmaps-to-visualize-relations-between-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxqda.com\/de\/blogpost\/research-diary-using-maxmaps-to-visualize-relations-between-codes","title":{"rendered":"Research Diary: Using MAXMaps to Visualize Relations between Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Die Soziologin Rachel Suranyi forscht \u00fcber die Integration ungarischer Juden in Israel (siehe vorheriger Blogartikel<\/a>). Im Rahmen Ihrer Promotion hat sie 90 Interviews gef\u00fchrt \u2013 aufgeteilt auf mehrere Untergruppen (z.B. Immigration 1990er, 2000er, Immigration und R\u00fcckkehr, Zweite Generation). Heute stellt sie vor, wie sie MAXMaps zur Auswertung von 17 Interviews eingesetzt hat, die mit Personen durchgef\u00fchrt wurden, deren Eltern vor oder nach dem 2. Weltkrieg von Ungarn nach Israel einwanderten.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Coding the use of various languages<\/h2>\r\n

As most of these interviews were conducted in English because the interviewees do not speak Hungarian (or at least not fluently), I created a code \u201cin Hungarian\u201d which was used for those segments where they used Hungarian words, expressions, etc. (I used a similar technique for interviews conducted in Hungarian for passages where interviewees used English language, see my first blog post<\/a>). When I transcribed the English interviews I marked passages with \u201c(in Hung)\u201d and put a slash before the first Hungarian word used in the sentence: see below. After coding the whole text, I searched for \u201cin Hung\u201d with the lexical search function and coded all the segments manually, since the number of words differed in each case.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Using\r\n

The code „in Hung“ marks Hungarian expressions in English interviews<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Using MAXMaps to visualize the results<\/h2>\r\n

Now I wanted to find out in which contexts these Hungarian words came up the most often, i.e. which code they intersected with the most. To achieve this goal, I utilized MAXMaps. I opened a new „Code Co-Occurrence Model“, dragged the code \u201cin Hungarian\u201d on the map and checked the option „Line width reflects frequencies“.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Using\r\n\r\n

Having done this, I received the picture below, which visualizes the frequencies of intersections between the use of Hungarian language and various codes through the thickness of the connection between them. It clearly shows that the interconnections between Hungarian Language and the following codes are relevant for my research (in order of frequency):<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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  • \u201cFood int\u201d: when the interviewee talks about whether he or she cooks\/eats Hungarian food.<\/li>\r\n
  • \u201cFood parents\u201d: when the interviewee talks about whether his or her parents cooked Hungarian food. Here they would mention dishes.<\/li>\r\n
  • \u201cLanguage knowledge\u201d: when the discussion is about his or her language knowledge. They would show off their Hungarian knowledge and gave me some examples what words they knew (counting, etc.).<\/li>\r\n
  • \u201cHolocaust\u201d: when it is about how the parents survived the Holocaust. They used the words such as „labour camp“ in Hungarian.<\/li>\r\n
  • And \u201cthird generation\u201d: when they talk about their children. They knew words in Hungarian such as \u201ccome here\u201d or \u201csweetie\u201d which they would tell their children in Hungarian.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\"Using\r\n

    MAXMaps here visualizes the frequencies of intersections between Hungarian language and various codes through the line width<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n

    Previous research projects discovered that the second generation Hungarian immigrants in Israel usually did not keep their language for several reasons, but this finding might give us a more detailed insight. Even though it is not based on a representative sample, some of these factors (e.g. Holocaust) coincide with the characteristic of the Hungarian Jewry and some (e.g. food) are similar to other second generational immigrant groups\u2019 identification.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

    About the author<\/h3>\r\n

    Rachel Suranyi has been using MAXQDA for her research project for five years. She is a PhD student in the Social Science department at the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University in Budapest (Hungary) and participates in different research projects (including qualitative methods). Her research interests are focussed on migration and integration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

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