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Qualitative Data Analysis I: Text Analysis 497
TABLE 17.2
Kurasaki’s Coding Scheme for Her Study of Ethnic Identity among Sansei in California
First-Order Category Second-Order Category Numeric Code
Sense of history and Sense of having a Japanese heritage 1.1
roots
Sense of having a Japanese American social
history 1.2
Values and ways of Japanese American values and attitudes 2.1
doing things Practice of Japanese customs 2.2
Japanese way of doing things 2.3
Japanese American interpersonal or
communication styles 2.4
Japanese language proficiency 2.5
Biculturality Integration or bicultural competence 3.1
Bicultural conflict or confusion 3.2
Sense of belonging Sense of a global ethnic or racial community 4.1
Sense of interpersonal connectedness with
same ethnicity or race of others 4.2
Sense of intellectual connectedness with
other ethnic or racial minorities 4.3
Searching for a sense of community 4.4
Sense of alienation
Self-concept
Sense of alienation from ascribed ethnic or
racial group 5.1
Sense of comfort with one’s ethnic or racial
self 6.1
Searching for a sense of comfort with one’s
ethnic or racial self 6.2
Worldview Social consciousness 7.1
Sense of oppression 7.2
SOURCE: ‘‘Ethnic Identity and Its Development among Third-Generation Japanese Americans’’ by K. S. Kurasaki,
1997. Ph.D. diss., Department of Psychology, DePaul University.
Table 17.4 shows a piece of the data matrix produced by Nyamongo’s coding
of the 35 narratives.
Building Conceptual Models by Memoing
Once you have a set of themes coded in a set of texts, the next step is to
identify how themes are linked to each other in a theoretical model (Miles and
Huberman 1994:134–137).