Methodologies

• Ethnography (Critical & Conventional)
• Discourse Analysis
• Participant Action Research
• Portraiture
• Grounded Theory
• Archival Research
• Life History

Methods

• In-Depth Interviews
• Field Observations
• Participant Observation
• Focus Groups
• Unobtrusive Observations
• Surveys designed from qualitative data
• Video Journals
• Intergroup Dialogue
• Triangulation of Qualitative Methods

Consulting Research Groups in Ethnographic Approaches for working with marginalized and/or underrepresented groups.

I am relatively new to MAXQDA. As an Associate Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies, I have been using computer assisted qualitative data analysis programs since my graduate school years at Harvard in the 1990s. During that time, Harvard computer specialists designed a program specifically for my dissertation research. Once I became a professor, I used other qualitative data analysis programs; none were as useful as the program designed at Harvard. Then, in 2012, I was introduced to MAXQDA and it is the first qualitative data analysis program that fits my needs. I am using MAXQDA to finish data analyses for two book projects based upon a triangulation of qualitative methods. I look forward to sharing my expertise with others.

Dance, L.J., R. Guitiérrez,  and M. Hermes“ (2010). More Like Jazz Than Classical: Reciprocal Interactions Among Educational Researchers and Respondents,” Harvard Educational Review, Volume 8, No. 3, Fall 2010.

 Dance, L.J. and J. Lunneblad (2011).“Bush, Volvos, and '50 Cent': The Cross-National Triangulation Challenges of a 'White' Swede and a 'Black' American,” chapter for Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods, edited by John H. Stanfield, II.,  Left Coast Press, 2011.