Grounded theory data analysis
Because the theory develops from the data as it is collected ed, the process of analysis takes place from the first time that data begins to be collected and continues until the research study is sufficient data have been collected and transcribed, it is possible for progress to the next stage - the building of an indexing system for the of coding consists of indexing from the text (of interviews, etc. These indexes are constructed following tive analysis of the of categories, concepts or codes are built up which start to explain ena that are emerging from the study. This process continues as data ted - the analysis within the grounded theory context is very much a dynamic added, amalgamated, or removed as new data emerges that causes you k what you have discovered - and possibly to change nt comparison , the codes and concepts identified in the preliminary coding analysis refined, extended, and cross-referenced. This takes place over g the writing of theoretical memos to record your thoughts on of the phenomena, relationships between categories, codes, ng theoretical emerging categories here you are searching for any n the t of all this analysis is normally the production ental core categories that tely saturated. More models that will help you to describe and explain the collection and analysis is ongoing throughout the research study, is follows three. Axial coding - to find links between - to find the core wikipedia, the free to: navigation, ed theory (gt) is a systematic methodology in the social sciences involving the construction of theory through methodic gathering and analysis of data. 1][2][3] grounded theory is a research methodology which operates inductively, in contrast to the hypothetico-deductive approach. A study using grounded theory is likely to begin with a question, or even just with the collection of qualitative data. As researchers review the data collected, repeated ideas, concepts or elements become apparent, and are tagged with codes, which have been extracted from the data. As more data is collected, and re-reviewed, codes can be grouped into concepts, and then into categories. Thus, grounded theory is quite different from the traditional model of research, where the researcher chooses an existing theoretical framework, and only then collects data to show how the theory does or does not apply to the phenomenon under study. Use in various ed theory is a general methodology, a way of thinking about and conceptualizing data. In this research they developed the constant comparative method, later known as grounded theory method. There were three main purposes behind the publication of the discovery of grounded theory:Rationale of the theory to be grounded is that this theory helps close the gap between theory and empirical in suggesting the logic of grounded book helped to legitimize careful qualitative research. Theory mainly came into existence when there was a wave of criticism towards the fundamentalist and structuralist theories that were deductive and speculative in two decades, sociologists and psychologists showed some appreciation for the grounded theory because of its explicit and systematic conceptualization of the theory. The discovery of grounded theory (1967) was published simultaneously in the united states and the united kingdom, because of which the theory became well known among qualitative researchers and graduate students of those turning point for this theory came after the publishing of two main monographs/works which dealt with "dying in hospitals". This helped the theory to gain some significance in the fields of medical sociology, psychology and psychiatry. 3][5] from its beginnings in health, the grounded theory method has come to prominence in fields as diverse as drama, management, manufacturing and education. Theory combines diverse traditions in sociology, positivism and symbolic interactionism as it is according to ralph, birks & chapman (2015)[7] "methodologically dynamic".
Strauss recognized the profundity and richness of qualitative research regarding social processes and the complexity of social life, glaser recognized the systematic analysis inherent in quantitative research through line by line examination, followed by the generation of codes, categories, and properties. 8] according to glaser (1992), the strategy of grounded theory is to take the interpretation of meaning in social interaction on board and study "the interrelationship between meaning in the perception of the subjects and their action". 9] therefore, through the meaning of symbols, human beings interpret their world and the actors who interact with them, while grounded theory translates and discovers new understandings of human beings' behaviors that are generated from the meaning of symbols. Symbolic interactionism is considered to be one of the most important theories to have influenced grounded theory, according to it understanding the world by interpreting human interaction, which occurs through the use of symbols, such as language. 8] according to milliken and schreiber in aldiabat and navenec, the grounded theorist's task is to gain knowledge about the socially-shared meaning that forms the behaviors and the reality of the participants being studied. Anchors that allow the key points of the data to be tions of codes of similar content that allows the data to be groups of similar concepts that are used to generate a theory. Collection of categories that detail the subject of the the data are collected, grounded theory analysis involves the following basic steps:Coding text and theorizing: in grounded theory research, the search for the theory starts with the very first line of the very first interview that one codes. This involves the constant comparative method and it goes on throughout the grounding theory process, right up through the development of complete g and theorizing: memoing is when the running notes of each of the concepts that are being identified are kept. It is the intermediate step between the coding and the first draft of the completed analysis. The constant comparative method comes into play, along with negative case analysis which looks for cases that do not confirm the model. One is required to build and test theory all the way through till the end of a project. Theory method is a systematic generation of theory from data that contains both inductive and deductive thinking. Others may try to verify the hypotheses that are generated by constantly comparing conceptualized data on different levels of abstraction, and these comparisons contain deductive steps. Another goal of a grounded theory study is to discover the participants' main concern and how they continually try to resolve it. These questions will be answered by the core variable and its subcores and properties in due ed theory method does not aim for the "truth" but to conceptualize what is going on by using empirical research. In a way, grounded theory method resembles what many researchers do when retrospectively formulating new hypotheses to fit data. However, when applying the grounded theory method, the researcher does not formulate the hypotheses in advance since preconceived hypotheses result in a theory that is ungrounded from the data. The researcher's goal is an accurate description, then another method should be chosen since grounded theory is not a descriptive method. The use of description in a theory generated by the grounded theory method is mainly to illustrate most behavioral research endeavors, persons or patients are units of analysis, whereas in gt the unit of analysis is the incident.
11] typically several hundred incidents are analyzed in a grounded theory study since usually every participant reports many comparing many incidents in a certain area, the emerging concepts and their relationships are in reality probability statements. Consequently, gt is a general method that can use any kind of data even though the most common use is with qualitative data (glaser, 2001, 2003). The results of gt are not a reporting of statistically significant probabilities but a set of probability statements about the relationship between concepts, or an integrated set of conceptual hypotheses developed from empirical data (glaser 1998). The theory works when it explains how the problem is being solved with much ability. A modifiable theory can be altered when new relevant data are compared to existing data. Is data is a fundamental property of gt which means that everything that gets in the researcher's way when studying a certain area is data. Not only interviews or observations but anything are data that help the researcher generating concepts for the emerging theory. 12] another linked with this concept technique consists of conducting self interview and treating that interview like any other data, coding and comparing it to other data and generating concepts from coding or substantive coding is conceptualizing on the first level of abstraction. This phase is often tedious since it involves conceptualizing all the incidents in the data, which yields many concepts. These are compared as more data is coded, merged into new concepts, and eventually renamed and modified. The gt researcher goes back and forth while comparing data, constantly modifying, and sharpening the growing theory at the same time as she follows the build-up schedule of gt's different a related note, strauss and corbin (1990, 1998) also proposed axial coding and defined it in 1990 as "a set of procedures whereby data are put back together in new ways after open coding, by making connections between categories. After the core variable is chosen, researchers selectively code data with the core guiding their coding, not bothering about concepts with little importance to the core and its subcores. Also, they now selectively sample new data with the core in mind, which is called theoretical sampling – a deductive part of gt. This is indeed encouraged while doing gt (glaser, 1998) since gt is not concerned with data accuracy as in descriptive research but is about generating concepts that are abstract of time, place and people. Selective coding could be done by going over old field notes or memos which are already coded once at an earlier stage or by coding newly gathered tical codes integrate the theory by weaving the fractured concepts into hypotheses that work together in a theory explaining the main concern of the participants. So the theoretical codes just as substantives codes should emerge from the process of constantly comparing the data in field notes and tical memoing is "the core stage of grounded theory methodology" (glaser 1998). Memos are the theorizing write-up of ideas about substantive codes and their theoretically coded relationships as they emerge during coding, collecting and analyzing data, and during memoing" (glaser 1998). 13] memos are important tools to both refine and keep track of ideas that develop when researchers compare incidents to incidents and then concepts to concepts in the evolving theory. In memos, they develop ideas about naming concepts and relating them to each other and try the relationships between concepts in two-by-two tables, in diagrams or figures or whatever makes the ideas flow, and generates comparative t memoing, the theory is superficial and the concepts generated are not very original.
The researcher is encouraged to register ideas about the ongoing study that eventually pop up in everyday situations, and awareness of the serendipity of the method is also necessary to achieve good the next step memos are sorted, which is the key to formulate the theory for presentation to others. A theory written from unsorted memos may be rich in ideas but the connection between concepts is g up the sorted memo piles follows after sorting, and at this stage the theory is close to the written gt product. The theoretical density should be dosed so that concepts are mixed with description in words, tables, or figures to optimize the later rewriting the relevant literature is woven in to put the theory in a scholarly context. Most books on grounded theory do not explain what methodology details to include in a scholarly article; however, some guidelines have been suggested. The literature should instead be read in the sorting stage being treated as more data to code and compare with what has already been coded and taping. Taping and transcribing interviews is common in qualitative research, but is counter-productive and a waste of time in gt which moves fast when the researcher delimits her data by field-noting interviews and soon after generates concepts that fit with data, are relevant and work in explaining what participants are doing to resolve their main concern. However, kathy charmaz counters this point, insisting that transcribing, coding, and re-coding are integral to the development of the theory. Talking about the theory before it is written up drains the researcher of motivational energy. Talking can either render praise or criticism, and both diminish the motivational drive to write memos that develop and refine the concepts and the theory (glaser 1998). Birks & chapman (2015)[7] explain the split in divergence grounded theory methodology in the article "the methodological dynamism of grounded theory"[7] and how grounded theory has been influenced by varying schools of thought over the their original publication in 1967, glaser and strauss have disagreed on how to apply the grounded theory method, resulting in a split between straussian and glaserian paradigms. Thereafter strauss, together with juliet corbin, published basics of qualitative research: grounded theory procedures and techniques in 1990. This was followed by a rebuke by glaser (1992) who set out, chapter by chapter, to highlight the differences in what he argued was original grounded theory and why, according to glaser, what strauss and corbin had written was not grounded theory in its "intended form" but was rather a form of qualitative data analysis. Glaser continues to write about and teach the original grounded theory ing to kelle (2005), "the controversy between glaser and strauss boils down to the question of whether the researcher uses a well-defined 'coding paradigm' and always looks systematically for 'causal conditions,' 'phenomena/context, intervening conditions, action strategies' and 'consequences' in the data, or whether theoretical codes are employed as they emerge in the same way as substantive codes emerge, but drawing on a huge fund of 'coding families. Novices who wish to get clear advice on how to structure data material may be satisfied with the use of the coding paradigm. Since the paradigm consists of theoretical terms which carry only limited empirical content the risk is not very high that data are forced by its application. Many researchers may concur with that approach especially since qualitative research always had a relation to micro-sociological action theory, but others who want to employ a macro-sociological and system theory perspective may feel that the use of the coding paradigm would lead them astray. Originated the basic process of grounded theory method described as the constant comparative method where the analyst begins analysis with the first data collected and constantly compares indicators, concepts and categories as the theory emerges. First book, the discovery of grounded theory, published in 1967, was "developed in close and equal collaboration"[18] by glaser and strauss. Glaser wrote "theoretical sensitivity" in 1978 and has since written five more books on the method and edited five readers with a collection of grounded theory articles and glaserian method is not a qualitative research method, but claims the dictum "all is data".
This means that not only interview or observational data but also surveys or statistical analyses or "whatever comes the researcher's way while studying a substantive area" (glaser quote) can be used in the comparative process as well as literature data from science or media or even fiction. Thus the method according to glaser is not limited to the realm of qualitative research, which he calls "qda" (qualitative data analysis). A theory discovered with the grounded theory method should be easy to use outside of the substantive area where it was s and corbin's approach[edit]. Speaking, grounded theory is an approach for looking systematically at (mostly) qualitative data (like transcripts of interviews or protocols of observations) aiming at the generation of theory. Sometimes, grounded theory is seen as a qualitative method, but grounded theory reaches farther: it combines a specific style of research (or a paradigm) with pragmatic theory of action and with some methodological approach was written down and systematized in the 1960s by anselm strauss (himself a student of herbert blumer) and barney glaser (a student of paul lazarsfeld), while working together in studying the sociology of illness at the university of california, san francisco. For and with their studies, they developed a methodology, which was then made explicit and became the foundation stone for an important branch of qualitative ant concepts of grounded theory method are categories, codes and codings. The research principle behind grounded theory method is neither inductive nor deductive, but combines both in a way of abductive reasoning (coming from the works of charles sanders peirce). This leads to a research practice where data sampling, data analysis and theory development are not seen as distinct and disjunct, but as different steps to be repeated until one can describe and explain the phenomenon that is to be researched. This stopping point is reached when new data does not change the emerging theory an interview that was conducted shortly before strauss' death (1994), he named three basic elements every grounded theory approach should include (legewie/schervier-legewie (2004)). These three elements are:Theoretical sensitive coding, that is, generating theoretical strong concepts from the data to explain the phenomenon researched;. Sampling, that is, deciding whom to interview or what to observe next according to the state of theory generation, and that implies starting data analysis with the first interview, and writing down memos and hypotheses early;. Need to compare between phenomena and contexts to make the theory ed theory method according to glaser emphasizes induction or emergence, and the individual researcher's creativity within a clear frame of stages, while strauss is more interested in validation criteria and a systematic approach. Later version of gt called constructivist gt, which was rooted in pragmatism and relativist epistemology, assumes that neither data nor theories are discovered, but are constructed by the researcher as a result of his or her interactions with the field and its participants. 19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] data are co-constructed by researcher and participants, and colored by the researcher's perspectives, values, privileges, positions, interactions, and geographical locations. Within this approach, a literature review is used in a constructive and data-sensitive way without forcing it on data. Theory has provided part of the basis for the research methodology known as the data percolation methodology. A series of steps are proposed to ensure the research leads to results that are as meaningful as possible after having percolated the mass of data. Notably, the data percolation methodology, unlike grounded theory, accepts the formulation of a so-called emerging model, which, as the name suggests, evolves as the researcher moves from a grounded approach to a hypothetico-deductive method back to testing the emerging model in the research field again. Like the grounded theory, data percolation has also been found effective in social sciences, including in analyzing functional psychopathy.
Theory is "shaped by the desire to discover social and psychological processes"[30] however grounded theory is not restricted to these two disciplines of study. As gibbs points out, the process of grounded theory can be and has been applied to a number of different disciplines such as medicine, law, and economics to name a few. Grounded theory has gone global among the disciplines of nursing, business, and education and less so among other social-psychological-oriented disciplines such as social welfare, psychology, sociology, and ed theory focuses more on the procedure and not on the discipline. Rather than being limited to a particular discipline or form of data collection, grounded theory has been found useful across multiple research areas (wells 1995). 31] here are some examples:In psychology, grounded theory is used to understand the role of therapeutic distance for adult clients with attachment sociology, grounded theory is used to discover the meaning of spirituality in cancer patients, and how their beliefs influence their attitude towards cancer health researchers have used grounded theory to examine nursing home preparedness needs through the experiences of hurricane katrina refugees sheltered in nursing business, grounded theory is used by managers to explain the ways in which organizational characteristics explain co-worker software engineering, grounded theory has been used to study daily stand-up meetings. Theory has also helped research in the field of information technology to study the use of computer technology in older adults. Nursing, grounded theory has been used to examine how bedside shift report can be used to keep patients safe[34]. Benefits of using grounded theory include:Ecological validity: ecological validity is the extent to which research findings accurately represent real-world settings. Grounded theories are usually ecologically valid because they are similar to the data from which they were established. Although the constructs in a grounded theory are appropriately abstract (since their goal is to explain other similar phenomenon), they are context-specific, detailed, and tightly connected to the y: because grounded theories are not tied to any preexisting theory, grounded theories are often fresh and new and have the potential for innovative discoveries in science and other ony: parsimony involves using the simplest possible definition to explain complex phenomenon. Grounded theories aim to provide practical and simple explanations about complex phenomena by converting them into abstract constructs and hypothesizing their relationships. They offer helpful and relatively easy-to-remember layouts for us to understand our world a little bit ed theory has further significance because:It provides explicit, sequential guidelines for conducting qualitative offers specific strategies for handling the analytic phases of streamlines and integrates data collection and analysis legitimizes qualitative research as scientific ed theory methods have earned their place as a standard social research method and have influenced researchers from varied disciplines and professions. Of grounded theory have focused on:Its misunderstood status as theory (is what is produced really 'theory'? The notion of 'ground' (why is an idea of 'grounding' one's findings important in qualitative inquiry—what are they 'grounded' in? 36] these authors also suggest that it is impossible to free oneself of preconceptions in the collection and analysis of data in the way that glaser and strauss say is necessary. They also point to the formulaic nature of grounded theory method and the lack of congruence of this with open and creative interpretation – which ought to be the hallmark of qualitative inquiry. They suggest that the one element of grounded theory worth keeping is constant comparative orpe has put forth some criticisms of grounded theory as an effort to synthesize variables oriented as empirical studies and radical choice theory. Grounded theory allows for modifications in the formulated hypotheses at the start of the empirical research process. In grounded theory, researchers engage in excessive conceptualization and defend this as "sensitivity to context.
Grounded theory can be reductive in the search for general patterns across a population, and even the selective coding process does not fully cover the contextual grounded theory approach can be criticized as being empiricist; that it relies too heavily on the empirical data. Considers the fieldwork data as the source of its theories and sets itself against the use of the preceding theories[37] strauss's version of grounded theory has been criticized in several ways-. Theory focuses on a quasi-objective centered researcher with an emphasis on hypotheses, variables, reliability and replicability. The researcher invariably comes to the research topic by finding more about his or her own ed theory offers a complex methodology and confusing terminology to navigate, rather than a practical orientation to research and data analysis. 38] some processes, such as the 3 stage process with associated data fragmentation, may lead the researcher to lose the track of the overall picture which is put forth theoretical explanations tends to be the outcome where data are linked conceptually and early to existing frameworks. Theory method was developed in a period when other qualitative methods were often considered unscientific. However, unlike grounded theory, engaged theory is in the critical theory tradition, locating those processes within a larger theoretical framework that specifies different levels of abstraction at which one can make claims about the world. Allan, "a critique of using grounded theory as a research method," electronic journal of business research methods, vol. Toward a grounded dramaturgy: using grounded theory to interrogate performance practices in theatre for early years". A b "clarification of the blurred boundaries between grounded theory and ethnography: differences and similarities" (pdf). Grounded theory method: sociology's quest for exclusive items of inquiry, forum qualitative sozialforschung / forum: qualitative social research, 13, 3, art. Corbin (1998) basics of qualitative research – techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory, second edition, london, sage , p. Strauss; juliet corbin: "grounded theory research: procedures, canons and evaluative criteria", in: zeitschrift für soziologie, 19. Sage, uctivist grounded , antony (2002) 're-grounding grounded theory', journal of information technology theory and application, 4(1): 25–, antony and charmaz, kathy (2007) 'grounded theory in historical perspective: an epistemological account', in bryant, a. London: , jane, bonner, ann, & francis, karen (2006) 'adopting a constructivist approach to grounded theory: implications for research design' international journal of nursing practice, 12(1): 8–, jane, bonner, ann, & francis, karen (2006) 'the development of constructivist grounded theory', international journal of qualitative methods, 5 (1): 25–erg, robert (2012) 'informed grounded theory', scandinavian journal of educational research, 56: 243–erg, robert and charmaz, kathy (2011) 'grounded theory', in lapan, s. Theory introduction to gt by the action research unit, southern cross university management ed theory research ries: educational psychology research methodspsychological theorieshidden categories: cs1 errors: external linksall articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrasesarticles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from march logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia out wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this a bookdownload as pdfprintable version. A non-profit outfaqmy ng confusion about grounded theory and qualitative content analysis: similarities and young cho, kent state -hee lee, hanyang gh grounded theory and qualitative content analysis are similar in some respects, they differ as well; yet the differences between the two have rarely been made clear in the literature. The purpose of this article was to clarify ambiguities and reduce confusion about grounded theory and qualitative content analysis by identifying similarities and differences in the two based on a literature review and critical reflection on the authors’ own research. Six areas of difference emerged: (a) background and philosophical base, (b) unique characteristics of each method, (c) goals and rationale of each method, (d) data analysis process, (e) outcomes of the research, and (f) evaluation of trustworthiness.
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