![]() Commonalities: Twins on the SurfaceĪTLAS.ti and MAXQDA are both around since the 1990s and quite prominent in qualitative sociology. Soon, I noticed major differences that had strong methodological implications. Yet strangely enough, this proved difficult to do and seemed not to make much sense. To familiarize myself with ATLAS.ti, I rebuilt the data base of my master thesis within it. As a freelancing software trainer, I was time and again asked to offer ATLAS.ti as well, so I moved on from a software I already knew well, to another one that looked very similar. However, I never noticed, how MAXQDA structured my research too. It’s core function is to structure text by segmenting it with labels. Since my master thesis ( Müller 2017), I am using MAXQDA. The implicit potentials and constrains of each (and any) software commonly drive our research because we too often follow the road that we already know best. ![]() ![]() Yet when we look under the hood, we see strong differences: one follows the logic of a relational data base and sorts everything into neat categories and the other operates like a graph data base that links different entities to form a large network. On the surface MAXQDA and ATLAS.ti seem almost identical.
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