Wednesday, February 19

Basics of Grounded Theory Analysis:Emergence vs. Forcing
I, Barney G. Glaser, have come to the conclusion that it is up to me to write a cogent, clear correction to the many wrong ideas in Basics of qualitative Research by Anselm L. Strauss and Juliet Corbin, 1990, Sage Publications. The many wrong ideas in Basics of Qualitative Research are too subtle for the average reader and user of grounded theory to follow, to corn-pare to previous work and to critique. These readers should be set back on the correct path to discovery and theory generation using grounded theory.
This book, with its corrected view of the underlying logic of grounded theory offered in Basics, will enable researchers to get on with their research and keep up their productivity. It is better for the reader of this book to just follow a corrected version of Strauss' book and go forward with confidence that this correction will produce an emergent, grounded theory. Basics produces a forced, preconceived, full conceptual description, which is fine, but is not grounded theory.

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