This volume is directed toward closing the gap between theory and empirical research and improving social scientists' capacities for generating theory that is relevant and useful to their research. "Most writing on sociological method has been concerned with how accurate facts can be obtained and how theory can thereby be more rigorously tested. In this book we address ourselves to the equally important enterprise, of how the discovery of theory from data-systematically obtained and analyed in social research--can be furthered. We believe that the discovery of theory from data--which we call grounded theory--is a major task confronting sociology today, for, as we shall show, such a theory fits empirical situations, and is understandable to sociologist and layman alike. Most important, it works--provides us with relevant predictions, explanations, interpretations and applications.... And so, we offer this book, which we conceive as a beginning venture in the development of improved methods for discovering grounded theory." From the introduction to The Discovery of Grounded Theory Authors: Barney G. Glaser, Anselm L. Strauss
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Barney G. Glaser is founder of the Grounded Theory Institute in California, and has also been a research sociologist at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. He is the author or co-author of several books, including The Grounded Theory Perspective II and Experts versus Laymen: A Study of the Patsy and the Subcontractor, published by AldineTransaction.
Anselm L. Strauss (1916-1996) was professor of sociology and chair of the department of social and behavioral sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. He is internationally recognied for his efforts in the fields of medical sociology and the developer, with Barney Glaser, of grounded theory.
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One should not be dissuaded from this book by its publication date. The material is as relevant now the day it was published, making it an essential classic now for over 30 years. Readers of this book will be introduced into an entirely new paradigm for doing rigorous research based on a qualitative methodology. Particularly if you are only familiar with the traditional scientific method and experimentalism, this book open up a whole new world. Glaser & Strauss show how theory emerges from the data, as an ever improving understanding of the signifiance of what is discovered. This book really presents a robust way for a researcher in any field, but particularly in the human sciences, to approach day to day research. It is the living method of creativity and innovation, presenting a system for understanding one's discoveries and framing them to producing meaningful knowledge. Everyone is approaching life this way, living out experiences and drawing conclusions from them, including the most mainstream of scientists. But Glaser and Strauss show how that process can be transformed from a willy-nilly gut feel into something that more reliably produces defensible knowledge claims and builds a substantive theoretical network.
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it's a well structured book, clearly guide readers go through the procedures of qualatitive data coding...and memo writitng...And it gives me tips of how to sort out my qualatitive data...enjoyed reading it!
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