Popular with interpretivist, critical realist and post-positivist researchers, the grounded theory research methodology is used in psychology, healthcare, business, management and leadership, education, sociology and more. Researchers using this method tend to want to understand what is going on for a group of people in an area of interest and often seek to provide practical recommendations for targeted and impactful change.
Using Grounded Theory offers step-by-step guidance on generating grounded theory using qualitative data, and is enriched by the many examples of Helen's mentees and peers who share their strategies for addressing common challenges of doing grounded theory. It will be valuable for post-graduate researchers, supervisors, professors, lecturers, and professionals in qualitative research.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
- Using this book
- Important background
1: WHAT IS GROUNDED THEORY?
- Emergence and openness are key
- Your turn - area, population
2: WHAT DOES A GROUNDED THEORY LOOK LIKE?
- The power of grounded theory
- Variations of grounded theory
- Your turn - purpose
3: COLLECTING GROUNDED THEORY DATA
- All is data
- Your turn - research conversations
- How Charmazian grounded theory differs: data collection
- A word on ethics
- Your turn - which data?
4: DATA ANALYSIS: PART I
- Inductive stage: open coding
- Your turn - email me
How Charmazian grounded theory differs: data analysis part I
5: DATA ANALYSIS: PART II
- Deductive stage: theoretical sampling and selective coding
- Memoing to conceptualise
- How Charmazian grounded theory differs: data analysis part II
6: CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION
- Theoretical codes
- How Charmazian grounded theory differs: conceptual integration
7: THE FINAL STAGES
- Sampling the extant literature
-Writing up the final draft
- Situating your theory
- Evaluating a grounded theory
8: INTEGRATING GROUNDED THEORY WITHIN A RESEARCH DEGREE
- Research problem and research questions
- Prior knowledge and theoretical sensitivity
- Construction of meaning
- Choose according to your purpose
- Implications for practice
9: A VERY PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE
- Synergy
- Philosophically neutral
Epilogue
- Disseminating a practical perspective
References
Appendix 1 Data analysis: getting conceptual
