The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory: Paperback Edition

Antony Bryant, Kathy Charmaz

SAGE Publications, Feb 11, 2010 - Social Science - 656 pages

'Tony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz are the perfect editors for this excellent and forward looking Handbook which is surely destined to be a classic'

- David Silverman, Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths College

For anyone interested in grounded theory this is a must have book. No longer will students have to search the library or internet to find authoritative voices on a variety of topics. It’s all right there at their fingertips

- Juliet Corbin, San José State University

Grounded Theory is by far the most widely used research method across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas, including social sciences, nursing and healthcare, medical sociology, information systems, psychology, and anthropology. This handbook gives a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of Grounded Theory, taking into account the many attempts to revise and refine Glaser and Strauss' original formulation and the debates that have followed.

Antony Bryant & Kathy Charmaz bring together leading researchers and practitioners of the method from the US, the UK, Australia and Europe to represent all the major standpoints within Grounded Theory, demonstrating the richness of the approach. The contributions cover a wide range of perspectives on the method, covering its features and ramifications, its intricacies in use, its demands on the skills and capabilities of the researcher and its position in the domain of research methods.

The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory is an indispensable reference source for academics and researchers across many disciplines who want to develop their understanding of the Grounded Theory method.

Contents

• Methods and Practices: 1
• PART I Origins and History: 29
• An Epistemological Account: 31
• The Legacy of Multiple Mentors: 58
• Cognitive and Emotional Forms of Pragmatism: 75
• PART II Grounded Theory Method and Formal Grounded Theory: 95
• 4 Doing Formal Theory: 97
• Essential Properties for Growing Grounded Theory: 114
• The Continuing Evolution of Grounded Formal Theory: 127
• The Defining Traits of Grounded Theory: 151
• PART III Grounded Theory in Practice: 165
• 8 Grounding Categories: 167
• Different Approaches in Grounded Theory: 191
• The Logic of Discovery of Grounded Theory: 214
• 11 Sampling in Grounded Theory: 229
• Memo Writing in the Grounded Theory Tradition: 245
• 13 The Coding Process and Its Challenges: 265
• PART IV Practicalities: 291
• 14 Making Teams Work in Conducting Grounded Theory: 293
• 15 Teaching Grounded Theory: 311
• The Case of the Information Systems Discipline: 339
• PART V Grounded Theory in the Research Methods Context: 361
• 17 Grounded Theorizing Using Situational Analysis: 363
• 18 What Can Grounded Theorists and Action Researchers Learn: 398
• Complexities Criticisms and Opportunities: 417
• 20 Accommodating Critical Theory: 436
• 21 Grounded Theory and the Politics of Interpretation: 454
• 22 Grounded Theory and RacialEthnic Diversity: 472
• 23 Advancing Ethnographic Research through Grounded Theory Practice: 493
• PART VI Grounded Theory in the Context of the Social Sciences: 513
• 24 Grounded Theory and Reflexivity: 515
• 25 Mediating Structure and Interaction in Grounded Theory: 539
• Dualthinking Modes as Necessary Tension in Grounded Theorizing: 565
• The Pragmatist Roots of Empiricallygrounded Theorizing: 580
• Discursive Glossary of Terms: 603
• Index: 613

About the author

Kathy Charmaz was Professor Emerita of Sociology and the former director of the Faculty Writing Program at Sonoma State University. She joined the first cohort of doctoral students at the University of California, San Francisco, where she studied with Anselm Strauss. She wrote in the areas of social psychology, medical sociology, qualitative methods, and grounded theory, and over her career wrote, coauthored, or coedited 14 books, including two award-winning works: Good Days, Bad Days; The Self in Illness and Time, and Constructing Grounded Theory. She received the George Herbert Mead award for lifetime achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, the Leo G. Reeder award for distinguished contributions from the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and the Lifetime Achievement award from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Professor Charmaz also gave workshops on qualitative methods, grounded theory, symbolic interactionism, and scholarly writing around the globe.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory: Paperback Edition; Sage Handbooks; The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory
• Authors: Antony Bryant, Kathy Charmaz
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, 2010
• ISBN: 1849204780, 9781849204781
• Length: 656 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Research & Development; Reference / Research; Social Science / Research