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Grounding Grounded Theory

Guidelines for Qualitative Inquiry

Ian Dey author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited

Published:17th Jun '99

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Key Features * Critically considers what grounded theory has to offer qualitative inquiry * Explores the principles and methodologies raised during the course of grounded theory's evolution * Not another how-to version of grounded theory

In searching out the methodological principles on which grounded theory is built, the author reveals its main features as a qualitative research methodology for social research and the issues fundamental to understanding it. He also highlights the disagreements between the originators of grounded theory, their reasons, and their effects.Professor Dey's persuasive, instructive, critical, engaging, and often humorous investigation places many elements of grounded theory under close scrutiny. In searching out the methodological principles on which grounded theory is built, he reveals its main features as a qualitative research methodology for social research and the issues fundamental to understanding it. He also highlights the disagreements between the originators of grounded theory, their reasons, and their effects. His enlightened perspective thereby makes sense of the ways in which grounded theory approaches some of the key issues in qualitative analysis, such as coding and categorization, analysis of process, and generation of theory. It critically considers what grounded theory has to offer qualitative inquiry; and explores the principles and methodologies raised during the course of grounded theory's evolution.

Prepublication Reviews "Grounded theory is an all-pervasive slogan in social research. Dey's book is a crucial guide to the realities and hard questions that lie behind the slogan." --DONALD MACKENZIE, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Reviews "It is [the] fundamental level of analysis that gives the book its instructive quality and makes it valuable reading for researchers contemplating any form of qualitative research...Highly recommended." --TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY RESEARCH: THE SURREY QUARTERLY REVIEW

ISBN: 9780122146404

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 611g

300 pages