Initial coding balanced emergent grounded themes against the study’s pragmatic aims

Evidence

The initial stage of analysis involved a grounded exploration of themes across the 36 interviews. Two qualitative researchers from the team (Alina I. Palimaru and Sarah Weilant) coded eight transcripts (22 percent of the sample) independently, then met with the project leader (Ryan Andrew Brown) to discuss and reconcile codebook development, code definitions, and coding rules. Codebook development was discussed in terms of balancing grounded findings with the study’s scope and final report goal: practical recommendations relating to radicalization prevention and deradicalization support. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 271

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Initial coding organizes raw text into researcher-driven meaningful groups — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 287; Grounded theory builds sound-quality explanations from coded interview notes; Interpretive codes function as modes of attention directed at textual phenomena — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1686

Broader Connections

• Grounded theory builds sound-quality explanations from coded interview notes #expands (0.78)
• Interpretive codes function as modes of attention directed at textual phenomena #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1686