Volume 5, Issue no. 2/3, March/June 2006

GT Review vol. 5 no. 2-3 Volume 5, Issue no. 2/3, March/June 2006  Editorial Judith A. Holton, Ph.D. The Roots of Grounded Theory Barney G. Glaser, Ph.D., Hon. Ph.D. From a keynote presentation given to the 3rd International Qualitative Research Convention, Johor Bahru, Malaysia 23rd August 2005.   Grappling with the Literature in a Grounded Theory Study Antoinette M. McCallin, Ph.D., RN Student researchers often struggle to understand how to use literature in a grounded theory study where timing and knowing what to read are critical. Despite substantive theoretical...

A Grounded Theory on Helping Behavior and Its Shaping Factors

Bro. Hans Steven Moran, FSC Abstract In social psychology, the attribution model of helping behavior suggests that beliefs of the helping target’s responsibility for the need for help evoke affective motivators such as feelings of pity, sympathy, or anger. The affective motivation leads to helping or not helping the target. The current emergent theory is an enhancement of this theory by incorporating other personal and situational variables. Through the use of classic grounded theory, I interviewed 80 participants from different De La Salle Schools in the Philippines....

The Postmodern Turn: Shall Classic Grounded Theory Take That Detour? A...

Vivian B. Martin, PhD Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern Turn, Adele E. Clarke, 2005, Sage Publications. 408 pp., paperback/hardcover Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide through Qualitative Analysis, Kathy Charmaz, 2006, Sage Publications. 224 pp., paperback/hardcover Adherents to classic grounded theory have gotten used to spotting the pretenders working under the grounded theory banner. Some of these faux-GT researchers have worked in a fog, misunderstanding fundamentals of the method; these are the studies that leave us shaking our...

The Roots of Grounded Theory

[From a keynote presentation given to the 3 rd International Qualitative Research Convention, Johor Bahru, Malaysia 23 rd August 2005] Barney G Glaser, Ph.D.; Hon Ph.D. I studied sociology at Stanford 1948 to 1952, which was partially fine but limited in those days. But then I knew I wanted to be a sociologist. Returning to the USA from the army in 1955 to study sociology at Columbia confirmed my goals. I bought the program 100% on doing sociology as my life work. All I do is sociology in every facet of life; work, recreation, family etc. My life is sociology driven and...

Grappling with the literature in a grounded theory study

[This paper was originally published in Contemporary Nurse (www.contemporarynurse.com) and is reprinted here with the kind permission of the publisher. Reference: McCallin, A. M. (2003). Grappling with the literature in a grounded theory study. Contemporary Nurse, 15(12), 6169.] Antoinette McCallin, Ph.D., RN Abstract Student researchers often struggle to understand how to use literature in a grounded theory study where timing and knowing what to read are critical. Despite substantive theoretical documentation on this topic the reality of working through abstract ideas is...

The Literature Review in Grounded Theory: A response to McCallin (2003...

Tom Andrew, RN, B.Sc.(Hons), M.Sc., Ph.D. Abstract The paper by McCallin (2003) is a useful contribution to the debate surrounding the role of the literature in Grounded Theory (GT). For the purpose of this paper and with reference to McCallin (2003) the issue will be discussed in relation to the purpose of a review within GT. It will be argued that the misunderstanding about the function of the literature within a GT study arises partly as a result of the confusion caused by the continual rewriting of the method. Further it will be argued that a preliminary reading of...