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Qualitative inquiry & research design: choosing among the five approaches. Given (Ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods. In the end, I may have a theory about how individuals begin to identify as Reddit users.Ĭharmaz, K., & Bryant, A. This would involve coding responses to questions, and then going back to my Reddit participants to saturate the categories about how they self identify and what steps in the online experience led to a new identity. I would need to identify the steps in this process, the influences and conditions on it, the strategies employed during this process, and the consequences. /book/an-introduction-to-the-philosophy-of-methodology Publication year: 2013 Online pub date: DecemDiscipline: Business and Management, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Education, Political Science and International Relations, Social Policy and Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology Methods: Critical realism, Theory, Methodology DOI: doi. If I were to attempt a grounded theory study based on my current research, I would try to create a theory around a phenomenon on Reddit, perhaps their process of identifying as a Redditor. One way to compile all this information is with a conditional matrix which informs the researcher of the connections between the conditions influencing the phenomenon. The process of gathering data and coding data is described as a zigzag, where one goes to the field gather data, goes to the office to analyze, and then back and forth.
(Charmaz & Bryant, 2008) A category is a unit of information, and may consist of events, happenings and instances. Researchers must also seek data that fills these categories, a technique called theoretical saturation. The participants are selected through theoretical sampling, where the sample is not representative of a population, but rather chosen to fill key categories. As the researcher writes more memos, they build their theory. The memos explain what is happening in the data, make comparisons and identify analytic gaps. Grounded theory researchers must begin with codifying their data quite early through memo writing.
They wrote several books that serve as guides for the grounded theory process. Grounded theory was developed by sociologists Barney G. There is finally data analysis to land on a theory. In order to do this, data is collected, and the researcher practices memoing, where s/he writes ideas around the data. This is what the researcher is trying to explain, and it must have unique steps that occur over time, such as “developing a general education program.” The theory is developed to explain this process. To aim of a grounded theory study is to create or discover a theory for a process or action that is grounded in the data. Creswell notes the defining features of grounded theory, the first of which is the aforementioned process or action.
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