Procedures for conducting grounded theory research
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2. •Grounded theory is a good design to use when a theory is not available to explain a process
•Theories may be present
•Theories are incomplete because they do not address potentially all variables of interest to the researcher.
•A theory may be needed to explain how people are experiencing a phenomenon
•The grounded theory developed by the researcher will provide such a generalframework.
Introduction
4. •Question are asked to create full model.
•Depends up to research design (20-30,40 up to 60)
•Data should also be collected by means of observations, documents, and audiovisual materials
5. •Open coding: the researcher forms categories of information about the phenomenon being studied by segmenting
information.
•Axial coding: the investigator assembles the data in new ways after open coding.
•Coding paradigm or logic diagram: (i.e., a visual model)
•Central phenomenon :(i.e., a central category about the phenomenon
•Causal conditions :(i.e., categories of conditions that influence the phenomenon
•Context and intervening conditions :(i.e., the narrow and broad conditions that influence the strategies)
•Consequences :(i.e., the outcomes of the strategies)
6. • Selective coding: the researcher may write a “story line” that connects the categories
•visually portray a conditional matrix that elucidates the social, historical, and economic conditions influencing
the central phenomenon. (optional)
•Substantive-level theory: result of this all-coding process of data collection and analysis
•Memoing: a process in which the researcher writes down ideas about the evolving theory throughout the
process of open, axial, and selective coding
•(Alternatively, the study may end at this point with the generation of a theory as the goal of the research)
7. (The researcher needs to recognize that the primary outcome of this study is a theory with specific components: a central
phenomenon, causal conditions, strategies, conditions and context, and consequences)
