Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Two illustrations
- 3 Codes and coding
- 4 Seminar on open coding
- 5 Memos and memo writing
- 6 Team meetings and graphic representations as memos
- 7 Excerpts that illustrate common problems
- 8 Integrative diagrams and integrative sessions
- 9 Integrative mechanisms: diagrams, memo sequences, writing
- 10 Presenting case materials: data and interpretations
- 11 Grounded formal theory: awareness contexts
- 12 Reading and writing research publications
- 13 Questions and answers
- 14 Research consultations and teaching: guidelines, strategies, and style
- Epilogue
- Appendix Discovering new theory from previous theory
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
Epilogue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Two illustrations
- 3 Codes and coding
- 4 Seminar on open coding
- 5 Memos and memo writing
- 6 Team meetings and graphic representations as memos
- 7 Excerpts that illustrate common problems
- 8 Integrative diagrams and integrative sessions
- 9 Integrative mechanisms: diagrams, memo sequences, writing
- 10 Presenting case materials: data and interpretations
- 11 Grounded formal theory: awareness contexts
- 12 Reading and writing research publications
- 13 Questions and answers
- 14 Research consultations and teaching: guidelines, strategies, and style
- Epilogue
- Appendix Discovering new theory from previous theory
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
After the first draft of this book was completed, a most apposite statement by C. W. Mills (1959, p. 28) was brought to our attention. Here is the quotation: It seems to round off our own sequence of presentations so well.
Of method-and-theory-in-general, I do not here need to say any more. I am nowadays quickly made weary by it; so much discussion of it interrupts our proper studies. I feel the need to say that I should much rather have one account by a working student of how he is going about his work than a dozen “codifications of procedure” by specialists who as often as not have never done much work of consequence. Better still: If sometimes in our professional forum we wish to discuss method and theory rather than the substance of our studies, let us ask each man whom we believe to be doing good or superior work to give us a detailed account of his ways of work.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987