![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Needless to say, the transcending nature of grounded theory makes the analyst quite sensitive to his data, where to take it conceptually and where to collect more data. So, in a sense a grounded theory, is never complete: “A theory must be readily modifiable, based on ever-emerging notion from more data.” Glaser, 1978, p.4 It has also been suggested that, in a sense, GT studies should never be considered finalised. Rushing or forcing the process will shut down the analyst’s creativity and conceptual abilities, exhausting the energy and leaving the researcher empty and the theory thin and incomplete.” Glaser & Holton, 2004 “This requires that the analyst takes whatever amount of quality time that is required to do the discovery process and that he/she learns to take this time in a manner consistent with his/her own temporal nature as an analyst-personal pacing. GT is therefore an open-ended commitment: That open timeline may not be appreciated by funding agenciesy and research supervisors. an open timeline for the research (‘theoretical saturation’)” (Taber, 2009:220).an iterative approach to analysis (‘constant comparison’).flexible and responsive (‘theoretical’) sampling.“GT studies are characterised by a number of features, which include: Thus the analyst must pace himself, exercise patience and accept nothing until something happens, as it surely does.” Glaser & Holton, 2004, ♦0 Significant theoretical realizations come with growth and maturity in the data, and much of this is outside the analyst’s awareness until preconscious processing becomes conscious. Little increments of coding, analyzing and collecting data cook and mature and then blossom later into theoretical memos. It is above all a delayed action phenomenon. It has been described as a ‘delayed action’ process! It is also an open-ended process which should be carefully paced and not rushed or forced. Grounded theory (somewhat like action research in this regard) is cyclic in nature: “By its nature, then, grounded theory requires cycles of research activity.” (Taber, 2000: 471) “Stated simply, grounded theory methods consist of systematic, yet flexible guideline for collecting and analyzing qualitative data to construct theories "grounded" in the data themselves…Thus data forms the foundation of our theory and our analysis of these data generates the concepts we construct.” Charmaz, 2006, Ch.1, p.4Īs the name suggests, GT is seen to be about building theory (theory than can be considered to be grounded in the data). Most frequently, qualitative data incidents are used.” Glaser, 2002a, p.2 This is accomplished by the many rigorous steps of GT woven together by the constant comparison process, which is designed to generate concepts from all data. “All that GT is, is the generation of emergent conceptualizations into integrated patterns, which are denoted by categories and their properties. Grounded theory (GT) can be seen as a bridge between confirmatory and discovery research: Historically GT can be considered as a response to positivist approaches in sociology, and seen as an attempt to make ‘qualitative’ approaches to data analysis as rigorous as ‘scientific’ approaches. ![]()
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