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Textbook & Article Recommendations

Altheide, David. 1987. "Ethnographic Content Analysis." Qualitative Sociology 10:65-77.

Altheide, David, Michael Coyle, Katie DeVriese, and Christopher Schneider. 2008. "Emergent Qualitative Document Analysis." Pp. 127-54 in Handbook of Emergent Methods, edited by Sharon N. Hesse-Biber and Patricia Leavy. New York: Guilford.

Corbin, Juliet, and Anselm Strauss. 2008. Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory, 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

DiMaggio, Paul, Manish Nag, and David Blei. 2013. “Exploiting Affinities between Topic Modeling and the Sociological Perspective on Culture: Application to Newspaper Coverage of U.S. Government Arts Funding.” Poetics 41:570-606.

LaRossa, Ralph. 2012. “The Historical Study of Fatherhood: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations.” Pp. 37-58 in Fatherhood in Late Modernity: Cultural Images, Social Practices, Structural Frames, edited by Mechtild Oechsle, Ursula Muller, and Sabine Hess. Germany: Barbra Budrich Publishers.

Miles, Matthew B., and A. Michael Huberman. 1994. Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Neuendorf, Kimberly A. 2002. The Content Analysis Guidebook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Seidel, John, and Udo Kelle. 1995. “Different Functions of Coding in the Analysis of Textual Data.” Pp. 52-61 in Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis: Theory, Methods and Practice, edited by Udo Kelle. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Methodological Exemplars

Sample Selection
For a good description of a sampling procedure, see:

Misra, Joya, Stephanie Moller, and Marina Karides. 2003.  "Envisioning Dependency: Changing Media Depictions of Welfare in the 20th Century." Social Problems 50:482-504.

For a thorough description of sample selection choices and sample attainment, see:

Quinn, Suzanne M. Flannery. 2006. "Examining the Culture of Fatherhood in American Children's Literature: Presence, Interactions, and Nurturing Behaviors of Fathers in Caldecott Award Winning Picture Books (1938-2002)". Fathering 4:71-96.

For a good example of how time matters in sample selection, see:

Craig, Stephen. 1992. "The Effect of Television Day Part on Gender Portrayals in Television Commercials: A Content Analysis." Sex Roles 26: 197-211.

Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism documents its sample selection and coding procedures at: http://www.journalism.org/about_news_index/methodology

Causality
For a good example of how causality is discussed in an empirical article on culture using content analysis, see:

Gamson, William A. and Andre Modigliani. 1989.  "Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach." American Journal of Sociology 95:1-37.

Codebooks
For several examples of codebooks, go to http://academic.csuohio.edu/kneuendorf/content/ and then click on "Coding."
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