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Book SynopsisThe grounded theory method is founded on a view of analysis whereby the research and potential hypotheses are not articulated at the outset; rather, the researcher initially seeks to gain familiarity with a research context, and only in later stages does the process become progressively more focused and targeted. As such, grounded theory method uses familiar research tools and techniques (coding, sampling, classification) but in new and novel ways. As a result, grounded theory method is one of the most widely used - if not the most widely used - method in current qualitative research. Initially aimed at the social sciences, grounded theory method has now spread so far that it can be found in almost any subject area or discipline in which people are observed or interviewed as participants. In Grounded Theory and Grounded Theorizing: Pragmatism in Research Practice, author Antony Bryant illustrates the key features of grounded theory method by showcasing examples from several of his most
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Not Another Book on Grounded Theory Part I: Research and Research Methods 1. Why (do) Research? 2. Research Methods Part II: The Grounded Theory Method: Background and Overview 3. 1967 And All That 4. The Grounded Theory Method: An Overview Part III: Grounded Theorizing 5. Coding: Terminology and Clarification 6. A Coding Exercise 7. An Abbreviated Example: Research Pitching 8. Process and Procedure: Getting Started and Moving Forwards 9. Coding Strategies: Tales From the Front-line 10. Reflecting and Recording: Memoing and Reflective Research Practice 11. Moving On: Later Sampling, Coding and Analyzing 12. Getting to an End-point: Theoretical Saturation 13. Abduction: No Longer an Alien Concept Part IV: Themes and Variations 14. A Grounded Theory of Grounded Theory Journal Papers 15. Another View of GTM: Another Way of Modelling 16. It's All in the Big Data: Data, Big Data, and GTM 17. GTM and Pragmatism: Instrumental Theorizing 18. GTM as a Guide to Good Research Practice 19. Four Accounts of Grounded Theorizing 20. The Survival of the Grounded Theorist
