Forms of Analysis

In many forms of analysis, such as Framework analysis and Narrative analysis, summarising is an important analytical and interpretative task. In summarising, selections are based on many grounds, such as relevance, salience, and theoretical and personal focus. These selections thus require interpretation, description, and accounting for your work. In this assignment you will have to write a short summary, in which you focus on the meanings given to Happiness in the interview.
Before writing the summary, consider ethical issues, such as privacy (do not publish names, and make people unidentifiable).
a. Summarise the part of the interview on the meaning of happiness (maximum 500 words). Use some direct quotes or translations, in order to give a lively description. A great accessible resource for writing summaries of interviews is the work by Irving Seidman (2013) on Interview profiles.
b. While summarising, think and make notes about the analytic task you do. Answer at least two of the following questions after you’ve written the summary in a short reflection (maximum 500 words).
a. How did you go about? Were you coding and then summarising, based on the codes? Or were you writing a narrative? What writing method did you use?
b. Are you describing the interaction or are you describing the ideas of the interviewee, or a combination of both?
c. Did you ran into issues of representation, did you feel you could or could not properly represent the interview? If so, how did you solve this?
d. Did you write a realist, confessional or an impressionist tale? Please explain shortly.