质性研究中理论原型的生成:社会心理学文本资料分析的经验分享与讨论

The Generation of Theoretical Prototypes in Qualitative Researches:Experience Sharing and Argumentation on the Analysis of Text Data in Social Psychology

社会心理学中独立使用质性方法的研究成果近年来日益受到关注,并且,对于以实验法为主流方法的社会心理学研究者来说,使用质性文本资料的分析来提升理论发现仍充满挑战。本文以三个个案研究中摸索到的分析文本的策略和经验为例,讨论社会心理学质性研究资料分析如何通过维度提取、类型发现以及过程建构提炼理论原型的具体方法,进而也展示并总结质性研究所具有的若干优势视角及其对学术积累做出贡献的可能性。

The research findings in social psychology by independent application of qualitative methods have gradually been the magnet of attention in recent years. Meanwhile, as far as the social psychology researchers regarding experimental method as their mainstream approach are concerned, to promote theoretical discovery by analyzing qualitative text data remains challenging. Taking the strategy and experience of text analysis acquired in three case studies as examples, this paper has elaborated on how to analyze qualitative research data in social psychology with the specific methods of dimension extraction, type discovery and process construction to draw out theoretical prototypes. Furthermore, the strength perspectives of qualitative researches and their possibilities to advance academic accumulation have been explored and summarized.