A prospective and deductive analysis tool for qualitative inquiry into social capital

Pragmatic social research or evaluation projects often need to show how research questions map or link to normative policy frameworks. This tool provides an exemplar of how this was achieved for community based research into social capital. The tool derives over-arching foci for Theoretical Questions (TQn) (lower left) from normative policy descriptors of social capital (upper right) for guiding the prospective and deductive collection and analysis of qualitative data. The tool therefore allows the relationship between policy descriptors and theoretical questions to be clearly mapped and illustrated. Originally devised 2014, revised, updated and archived 2019.