Learning to use Grounded theory | Grounding Grounded Theory: Guidelines for Qualitative Inquiry

Good though needs updating | Grounding Grounded Theory: Guidelines for Qualitative Inquiry | Ian Dey

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	• Grounding Grounded Theory: Guidelines for Qualitative Inquiry Ian Dey Academic Press, 1999 - 282 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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Excellent, Detailed, on level ground!

If you've read Glasner and Straus' (1967), then this is an excellent modern day treatment of developing grounded theory. A must-have title for any qualitative researcher. Above all, suggestions throughout this book offer practical tips that any academic researcher will appreciate.

Learning to use Grounded theory

Ian Dey provides a good explanation of grounded theory method and he is especially worried in the definition of concepts, something very important in a research method. Special relevant are his highlights along the book, that help to focus on the essential of each section. In my opinion this book is a good analysis of Glaser and Strauss work, and he gives a more neutral perspective on how to use grounded theory. Very analytical and objective in his explanations.

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Good though needs updating

This is a good book, though it is probably true to say that its critique has been superseded and bettered. Dey provides a comprehensive list of criticisms of grounded theory, suggesting that there are many ambiguities, confusions and unanswered questions surrounding its use. For example, he illustrates how tensions in the original formulation of the approach are revealed in the gulf that developed between the originators, such that the role of verification remains a "puzzle" and the role of prior theory is unclear. Despite this critique, though, Dey maintains a surprising degree of optimism in the approach. He sees grounded theory as capable of development and as offering a "middle way" between ideographic and nomothetic theorizing. A more up to date and comprehensive critique is provided in the Thomas and James article 'Reinventing grounded theory'.

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Professor Dey's persuasive, instructive, critical, engaging, and often humorous investigation places many elements of grounded theory under close scrutiny. In searching out the methodological principles on which grounded theory is built, he reveals its main features as a qualitative research methodology for social research and the issues fundamental to understanding it. He also highlights the disagreements between the originators of grounded theory, their reasons, and their effects. His enlightened perspective thereby makes sense of the ways in which grounded theory approaches some of the key issues in qualitative analysis, such as coding and categorization, analysis of process, and generation of theory.

Key Features
* Critically considers what grounded theory has to offer qualitative inquiry
* Explores the principles and methodologies raised during the course of grounded theory's evolution
* Not another "how-to" version of grounded theory

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