The Constant Comparative Method of Qualitative Analysis

[This paper was originally published in Social Problems, 12(1965), pp. 436-45 and later as Chapter V in Glaser, B.G. & Strauss, A.L. (1967). The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies fro qualitative research. New York: Aldine DeGruyter.] Barney G. Glaser, Ph.D. Currently, the general approaches to the analysis of qualitative data are these: 1.) If the analyst wishes to convert qualitative data into crudely quantifiable form so that he can provisionally test a hypothesis, he codes the data first and then analyzes it. He makes an effort to code “all relevant data...

Anticipatory Caring

[This paper was originally published as Sandgren, A., Thulesius, H., Petersson, K. & Fridlund, B. (2007). Doing good care ? A study of palliative home nursing care. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, 2:4, 227-235 and is reprinted here with the permission of the publisher] Anna Sandgren, RN, MSc, PhD Candidate; Hans Thulesius, MD, PhD; Kerstin Petersson, RNT, PhD; Bengt Fridlund, RNT, PhD Abstract Today, more and more people die in own homes and nursing homes, which fundamentally affects community nursing. The aim of this study was...

Navigating New Experiences: A basic social process

Kara L. Vander Linden, Ed.D. Abstract This grounded theory study was initiated to discover the process adult learners go through when engaging in new learning experiences. Data came from 12 open-ended intensive interviews with adult learners involved in various educational endeavors. Theoretical sampling led to several additional interviews with individuals not engaged in post-secondary education but more generally in new learning experiences. The basic social process of navigating explains three cyclical stages of behaviors used to successfully traverse new experiences....

Reaching Out: Network building by US non-profit welfare organizations

Chandrasekhar Commuri Abstract Contemporary non-profit organizations operate in a fast changing and challenging environment. While the challenges at the sector level have been well documented, there is a gap in the literature in examining this issue at the local level. Based on interviews with non-profit executives, and using grounded theory methodology, this paper proposes that non-profits are using a reaching out strategy to deal with their most commonly experienced challenges of overwhelming complexity, distancing, and fragmentation. Reaching out involves different...

Doing Quantitative Grounded Theory: A review

Tina L. Johnson, PhD Whenever I review materials I do so with three eyes. One is as an educator of Ph.D. students who are just beginning their knowledge research methodologies. Another eye is towards the needs of the Ph.D. student in the midst of crafting and defending their dissertation proposal and finished product. Finally I view the book from my own educational needs or does this book provide me as an experienced grounded theorist with needed or new knowledge of my craft? From two of these three perspectives I view Dr. Barney Glaser’s new book Doing Quantitative...

Doing Quantitative Grounded Theory: A theory of trapped travel consump...

Mark S. Rosenbaum, Ph.D. All is data. Grounded theorists employ this sentence in their quest to create original theoretical frameworks. Yet researchers typically interpret the word gdatah to mean qualitative data or, more specifically, interview data collected from respondents. This is not to say that qualitative data is deficient; however, grounded theorists may be missing vast opportunities to create pioneering theories from quantitative data. Indeed, Glaser and Strauss (1967) argued that researchers would use qualitative and/or quantitative data to fashion original...