Grounded Theory: A Reader for Researchers, Students, Faculty and Others
Grounded theory is one of the most important intellectual developments in academic research. Prior to the seminal work in grounded theory in the 1960s the essence of academic research in the social sciences had not been particularly well articulated. Of course, some important work had already been done but it had been by particularly gifted individuals who, for whatever reason, were able to make use of their visceral understanding of the subject. The famous work by Glasser and Strauss put social science research under the microscope and in so doing it provided the academic community with a language set that gave many more people a much better opportunity to fully understand the nature of research.
I believe that every academic researcher should know about Grounded theory as that will allow them to have a much more thorough understanding of what they are doing.
There is a useful glossary at the end of this textbook.
Readers of this book have my best wishes in achieving their objectives through their work with academic research.
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Chapters
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1. What is Grounded Theory and what does it do for Social Science?
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2. The Trouble with Grounded Theory?
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3. Theory and Theoretical Research
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4. Data?
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5. Pragmatism
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6. Grounded Theory at Work
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7. What Characterises Grounded Theory Research?
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8. An end note on the Nature of Grounded Theory
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