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Title: Grounded Theory Designs


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Chapter 14
  • Grounded Theory Designs
  • Dr. Bill Bauer EDUC 640

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A Brief History of Grounded Theory Designs
  • 1967 Glaser and Strauss book Discover of
    Grounded Theory
  • 1990, 1998 Strauss and Corbin prescriptive form
    with predetermined categories and concerns about
    reliability and validity
  • 2000 Charmaz introduces Constructivist method

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Types of Grounded Theory Design Systematic
Design
  • Open Coding properties and dimensionalized
    properties
  • Axial Coding researcher selects one open coding
    category and places it at the center as the
    Central Phenomenon and then relates all other
    categories to it.
  • Selective Coding writing a theory based on the
    interrelationship of the categories from axial
    coding

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Open Coding to the Axial Coding Paradigm
Open Coding Categories
Axial Coding Paradigm
Context
Category
Category
Causal Conditions
Core Category or Phenomenon
Category
Strategies
Consequences
Category
One open coding category as core phenomenon
Intervening Conditions
Category
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Types of Grounded Theory Design Emerging Design
  • Grounded theory exists at the most abstract
    conceptual level rather than the least abstract
    level as found in visual data presentations such
    as a coding paradigm
  • A theory is grounded in the data and not forced
    into categories
  • Four essential criteria fit, work, relevance,
    modifiability

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Types of Grounded Theory Design Constructivist
Design
  • Philosophical position between positivist and
    post-modern researchers
  • Theorist explains feelings of individuals as they
    experience a phenomenon or process

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Types of Grounded Theory Design Constructivist
Design
  • Study mentions beliefs and values of the
    researcher and eschews predetermined categories
  • Narrative is more explanatory, discursive, and
    probing the assumptions and meanings for the
    individuals in the study.

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Key Characteristics of Grounded Theory Design
  • Studying a process related to a substantive topic
  • Sampling theoretically involving the simultaneous
    and sequential collection and analysis of data
  • Constantly comparing data with an emerging theory

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A Process and Categories Within the Flow of
Research in Grounded Theory
The research problem leads to A study of a
central phenomenon in grounded theory
research questions That addresses a
process Which contains
- a sequence of activities
- including actions by people -
including interactions by people
Which a grounded theorist
begins to understand by developing
- categories -
relating categories -
developing a theory that explains
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Zig-Zag Data Collection and Analysis to Achieve
Saturation of Categories
Data Collection
Data Analysis
Close to Saturated Categories
More Refined Categories
Third Interview
Toward Saturation of Categories
Refined Categories
Second Interview
First Interview
Preliminary Categories
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Constant Comparison Procedures in Grounded Theory
Category I
Category II
Code B
Code C
Code A
Indicators
Raw Data (e.g. transcripts, field notes, documents
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Example of a Theory - A Model of Ethnic Minority
Students in the Process of Community Building
Intervening Conditions

Ethnicity - Hispanic -Black Gender -male
-female Background - Economic Differences
-Diversity -Adapting to Change Sense of Self
Peer Interactions
Community
Causal Condition
Phenomenon
Properties
Properties
- Nature of Interactions - Racial Differences -
Quantity of Friends - Intensity - Time to
Develop Friends
- Sense of Belonging - Source - Importance
Strategies
Withdrawal Passive, low risk Active
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Conducting a Grounded Theory Study
  • Decide if Grounded Theory design best addresses
    the research problem
  • Identify a process to study
  • Seek approval and access
  • Conduct theoretical sampling

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Conducting a Grounded Theory Study
  • Code the data
  • Use selective coding and develop the theory
  • Validate your theory
  • Write a grounded theory research report

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Criteria for Evaluating a Grounded Theory Design
Theory Evaluation
  • Is there an obvious connection between the
    categories and the raw data?
  • Is the theory useful as a conceptual explanation
    for the process being studied?
  • Does the theory provide a relevant explanation of
    actual problems and a basic process?
  • Can the theory be modified as conditions change
    or further data are gathered?

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Criteria for Evaluating a Grounded Theory Design
Research Evaluation
  • Is a theoretical model developed or generated
    that conceptualizes a process, action, or
    interaction?
  • Is there a central phenomenon (or core category)
    specified at the heart of the model?

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Criteria for Evaluating a Grounded Theory Design
Research Evaluation
  • Does the model emerge through phases of coding?
    (e.g. initial codes to more theoretically
    oriented codes or open coding to axial coding to
    selective coding
  • Does the researcher attempt to interrelate
    categories?

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Criteria for Evaluating a Grounded Theory Design
Research Evaluation
  • Does the researcher gather extensive data so as
    to develop a detailed conceptual theory as well
    saturated in the data?
  • Does the study show how the researcher validated
    the evolving theory by comparing it to the data,
    examining how the theory supports or refutes
    existing theories in the literature, or checking
    theory with participants?

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Applying What you Have Learned Grounded Theory
  • Review the article and look for the following
  • The research problem and use of quantitative
    research
  • Use of the literature
  • The purpose statement and research hypothesis
  • Types and procedures of data collection
  • Types and procedures of data analysis and
    interpretation
  • The overall report structure
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