Can I capture one's social identity orientation in a qualitative study?

Hi, I want to analyse people social identities from forum posts.

For example in a forum post "As a mother, I should look after my children" statement will be a signal of mother identity. I am planning to find out identities until saturation. When I achieved the saturation, I want to claim that these social identities are most salient when people considered do post on forums. It is kind of text analysing. Which method should I use to analyse data? Qualitative content analyses or Thematic analyses or something else?

We are now dealing with a COVID world and a post-COVID world lies in our future. Good social research will generate better understandings not only of the current social impact of COVID, but also continuing or new impacts into the future. Findings will have immediate and long-term applications for contributing to policy and service delivery and development to better support publics as they deal with and recover from the myriad challenges they are experiencing to their ways of life and health status. They will also offer ways forward for how to deal with and manage new large-scale health crises in ethical and effective ways.

Dear all,

My PhD study focuses on the experience of recovered addicts who work in social enterprises in Greece. I ‘m trying to discover and describe the factors that shape their experience (including job characteristics, daily routine, relationships, comparison with previous job positions, satisfaction/dissatisfaction factors, impact of social enterprise in the quality of life). In order to collect simultaneously both quantitative and qualitative data, I follow a pragmatic approach. That’s why in the interviews I use my own structured questionnaire consisting of closed and open-ended questions. My question is: can I use Thematic Analysis to analyze the answers to open-ended questions?

Can comparison be made using thematic analysis in Qualitative comparative analysis? Is there any other technique apart from fsQCA?

Open-ended questions can be found in both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Are there any criteria to put open-ended questions only in one of these categories?

I am drafting a questionnaire for semi structured interviews for further Grounded Theory based analysis. My research question is " What are the Knowledge Sharing & Retention strategies in "X" industrial sector & what are the key challenges & barriers being faced in their implementations". Kindly help me in drafting some key questions for getting key insights of respondents.

I think the same confusion between what is scientific research plays out here as well between what is empirical(positivist) and what is theoretical?

I'm doing a thematic analysis on media files from a sample size of 15. So far I have created four major themes which I believe will help in answering my research question. But is there a minimum number of themes required to present the results of the thematic analysis?

I am looking for a research topic on leadership for Master Program. Please suggest me the research topics.