The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory

Antony Bryant is currently Professor of Informatics at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK. He has written and taught extensively on research methods, with a particular interest in qualitative research methods, and the Grounded Theory Method in particular.  His book Grounded Theory and Grounded Theorizing: Pragmatism in Research Practice was recently published by Oxford University Press (2017).  He is Senior Editor of The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (SAGE, 2007) and The Sage Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory – both co-edited with Kathy Charmaz (SAGE, 2019). He has supervised over 50 doctoral students, and examined many others, in topics including formal specification of software systems, development of quality and maturity frameworks, new forms of business modelling, and various aspects of e-government and e-democracy.He is currently working with Professor Frank Land, who worked on the first commercial computer (LEO 1951), and was also the first UK Professor of Information Systems, on a series of ‘conversations’ planned for publication that will cover issues in the development and impact of computer technology since the 1950s.Kathy Charmaz was Professor Emerita of Sociology and the former director of the Faculty Writing Program at Sonoma State University. She joined the first cohort of doctoral students at the University of California, San Francisco, where she studied with Anselm Strauss. She wrote in the areas of social psychology, medical sociology, qualitative methods, and grounded theory, and over her career wrote, coauthored, or coedited 14 books, including two award-winning works: Good Days, Bad Days; The Self in Illness and Time, and Constructing Grounded Theory. She received the George Herbert Mead award for lifetime achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, the Leo G. Reeder award for distinguished contributions from the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and the Lifetime Achievement award from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Professor Charmaz also gave workshops on qualitative methods, grounded theory, symbolic interactionism, and scholarly writing around the globe.

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• PART ONE: ORIGINS AND HISTORYGrounded Theory in Historical Perspective: An Epistemological Account - Antony Bryant & Kathy CharmazDiscovery of Grounded Theory in Practice: The Legacy of Multiple Mentors - Eleanor Krassner CovanLiving Grounded Theory: Cognitive and Emotional Forms of Pragmatism - Susan Leigh StarPART TWO: GROUNDED THEORY METHOD AND FORMAL GROUNDED THEORYDoing Formal Theory - Barney G GlaserOn Solid Ground: Essential Properties for Growing Grounded Theory - Phyllis Noerager SternFrom the Sublime to the Meticulous: The Continuing Evolution of Grounded Formal Theory - Margaret H KearneyOrthodoxy versus Power: The Defining Traits of Grounded Theory - Jane HoodPART THREE: GROUNDED THEORY IN PRACTICEGrounding Categories - Ian DeyDevelopment of Categories: Different Approaches in Grounded Theory - Udo KelleAbduction: The Logic of Discovery of Grounded Theory - Jo ReichertzSampling in Grounded Theory - Janice MorseAsking Questions of the Data: Memo Writing in the Grounded Theory Tradition - Lora LempertThe Coding Process and Its Challenges - Judith HoltonPART FOUR: PRACTICALITIESMaking Teams work in Conducting Grounded Theory - Carolyn WienerTeaching Grounded Theory - Sharlene Nagy Hesse-BiberThe Evolving Nature of Grounded Theory Method: The Case of the Information Systems Discipline - Cathy UrquhartPART FIVE: GROUNDED THEORY IN THE RESEARCH METHODS CONTEXTGrounded Theory Using Situational Analysis - Adele E Clarke and Carrie FrieseWhat Can Grounded Theorists and Action Researchers Learn From Each Other? - Bob DickFeminist Qualitative Research and Grounded Theory: Complexities, Criticisms, and Opportunities - Virginia L OlesenAccommodating Critical Theory - Barry GibsonGrounded Theory and the Politics of Interpretation - Norman K DenzinGrounded Theory & Racail/ Ethnic Diversity - Denise O′Neil Green, John W. Creswell, Ronald J. Shope, Vicki L. Plano ClarkAdvancing Ethnographic Research Through Grounded Theory Practice - Stefan Timmermans and Iddo TavoryPART SIX: GROUNDED THEORY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCESGrounded Theory and Reflexivity - Katja Mruck and Guenter MeyMediating Structure and Interaction in Grounded Theory - Bruno HildenbrandRational Control and Irrational Free-play: Dual-thinking Modes as Necessary Tension in Grounded Theorizing - Karen LockeResearch as Pragmatic Problem-solving: The Pragmatist Roots of Empirically-grounded Theorizing - Joerg Struebing