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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2010

Anselm L. Strauss
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University of California, San Francisco
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After that long introductory discussion, a “methods” book would ordinarily move directly to presenting in concrete detail the initial steps of research procedure – in this instance, the coding of data. We shall not do that yet. Readers who are eager to get quickly to the procedures can skip the present chapter, returning to it later. But it is placed here for those readers who need some overall visualization of the spate of terms discussed rather abstractly in the preceding pages.

There are two reasons for placing the material given below at this precise point in the book. The first is to give some sense of how a grounded theorist operates with data, since that style of analysis is somewhat different than other modes. Thus the analyst–teacher will be seen developing theory by using both “real” and experiential data, making constant comparisons, discovering and naming categories, suggesting possible theoretical samples to be examined later, emphasizing all of the elements in the coding paradigm, and raising a host of theoretically informed questions. The second reason for presenting this material here is to give a more concrete sense of how grounded theory is taught in research seminars, providing thereby useful imagery before readers are plunged into the technicalities of coding, memoing, and so forth. Indeed the teaching of grounded theory rests on collaborative work by the seminar participants (although sometimes it is strongly guided by the instructor), and is designed to facilitate thinking about and analysis of data in free if disciplined ways.

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  • Two illustrations
  • Anselm L. Strauss, University of California, San Francisco
  • Book: Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists
  • Online publication: 26 January 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557842.003
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  • Two illustrations
  • Anselm L. Strauss, University of California, San Francisco
  • Book: Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists
  • Online publication: 26 January 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557842.003
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  • Two illustrations
  • Anselm L. Strauss, University of California, San Francisco
  • Book: Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists
  • Online publication: 26 January 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557842.003
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