CONTENT ANALYSIS(SEE ALSO: Coalitions; Game Theory and Strategic Inter-
action; Interpersonal Power)
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See Cognitive Consistency Theories.CONTENT ANALYSIS
‘‘Content analysis’’ has evolved into an umbrella
label that includes various procedures for making
reliable, valid inferences from qualitative data,
including text, speech, and images. These proce-
dures have improved and expanded due to numer-
ous developments in recent years since this ency-
clopedia’s first edition.Traditionally, ‘‘content analysis’’ has referred
to systematic procedures for assigning prespecified
codes to text, such as interviews, newspaper edito-
rials, open-ended survey answers, or focus-group
transcripts, and then analyzing patterns in the
codings. Some projects will count each specific
occurrence within a text, while others will have
coders tally the number of column inches assigned
a code. Either way, the procedure usually employs