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	Interpretiv analys av dokument	Interpretiv innehållsanalys
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativa metoder
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	2000s (building on hermeneutic traditions from the 20th century)	1983 (Mayring's German original); 2000 (English publication)
Upphovsperson	Glenn Bowen (systematic method); Lindsay Prior (social use of documents)	Philipp Mayring (systematic qualitative variant); Klaus Krippendorff (foundational framework)
Typ	Qualitative document-based research method	Qualitative text analysis approach
Ursprungskälla	Bowen, G. A. (2009). Document analysis as a qualitative research method. Qualitative Research Journal, 9(2), 27–40.	Mayring, P. (2000). Qualitative content analysis. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1(2), Art. 20.
Alias	interpretive documentary analysis, hermeneutic document analysis, qualitative document analysis, interpretive textual analysis	ICA, interpretive CA, qualitative content analysis, meaning-oriented content analysis
Närliggande	6	6
Sammanfattning	Interpretive document analysis is a qualitative method that systematically examines written, visual, or digital documents to construct meaning from them within their social, historical, and institutional contexts. Rather than simply counting content categories, it reads documents as social artefacts — asking not only what a document says, but what it does, who produced it, for what purpose, and what assumptions it encodes. The approach draws on hermeneutic and interpretive traditions to move between individual passages and the broader context in which they were created.	Interpretive content analysis is a systematic qualitative approach for analyzing the latent meanings and interpretive frameworks embedded in textual, visual, or documentary data. Unlike frequency-based content analysis, it foregrounds the researcher's interpretive engagement with texts to uncover how meaning is constructed, contested, or reproduced. Philipp Mayring's qualitative content analysis and broader interpretive traditions provide the methodological backbone for this approach.