方法对比

	轴编码	内容分析
领域	质性	质性
方法族	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
起源年份	1990	Systematised through Krippendorff's methodology work; 4th edition 2018
提出者	Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin	Klaus Krippendorff (systematic formulation); roots in early 20th-century communications research
类型	Qualitative research method	Qualitative / mixed-method research technique
开创性文献	Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (1990). Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803932456	Krippendorff, K. (2018). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (4th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506395661
别名	axial analysis, relational coding, category development coding, second-level coding	İçerik Analizi, systematic content coding, quantitative content analysis
相关	6	5
摘要	Axial coding is the second major analytical step in grounded theory analysis, performed after open coding. Introduced by Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin in 1990, it involves systematically re-examining and reorganising the many discrete codes generated during open coding by identifying a central (axial) category and mapping the causal conditions, contextual factors, intervening conditions, action-interaction strategies, and consequences that surround it. The goal is to move from a fragmented list of codes to a coherent relational structure that reflects how concepts interconnect in the data.	Content analysis is a systematic research technique for reducing text, visual, or media material into coded categories so that patterns can be counted, compared, and interpreted. Formalised by Klaus Krippendorff in his widely cited methodology textbook (latest edition 2018), the method sits at the boundary of qualitative and quantitative inquiry: it imposes structured, replicable coding on inherently meaning-laden material.